[CTRL] Wirtshafter on DEA Birdseed Fiasco
-Caveat Lector- fwd: Don Wirtshafter, Ohio Hempery Inc Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:33 AM For those of you who have not yet heard, the hundreds of businesses who have staked their future on industrial hemp are going through a crisis. The Drug Enforcement Administration has changed their interpretation of the Controlled Substances Act to include many hemp products, especially those made of the nutritious seeds. Kenex, Inc., the most established Canadian producer had a truck of birdseed seized at the border and has been ordered to recall 17 loads that were already shipped to the United States. Many businesses, including my own, have received a Summons from U.S. Customs ordering us to disclose all of our imports of hemp. According to the DEAs press release of October 6, 1999: "Recently, DEA and other federal agencies have become aware that sterilized cannabis seed has been imported into the United States for use in food products for human consumption. Furthermore, some of that seed, and products made from the seed, may be contaminated with THC. Under federal law, THC is a schedule I controlled substance. Therefore, any product containing any amount of THC can only be imported into the United States by a company that is appropriately registered with DEA." Arguments aside that organic THC is not Schedule I or that it takes years to get a Schedule I license, the blockade at the border threatens everything the hempsters have been working for, our movement, our industry and our livelihoods. The following is a letter that I wrote to members of the Hemp Industries Association. http://www.thehia.org I thought it appropriate to post to this list with this introduction. --- I made some progress in Washington, D.C. the week of October 4-8. My original purpose was to attend the CATO Institutes Beyond the Drug War Seminar with such notables as free thinking Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico and the closed minded prohibitionist Former Attorney General of California, Dan Lungren. I also got invited to attend a private dinner with Gov. Johnson organized by the Association of Drug Reform Organizations. These events gave me an opportunity to discuss the present situation in the hemp industry with the movers and shakers of the drug reform movement. Lots of help was promised to us by these leaders. I was also able line up some of the professional help we need to oppose a report on the "Hazards of THC" that is scheduled to be issued in draft form by Health Canada any day now. I used my presence in Washington to try to spark some movement in the logjam that Kenex and the industry faces. I spent a morning discussing the situation with Bruce Schwartz and Jeff Klein, the Washington-based attorneys for Kenex. We agreed on most aspects of the case except two. They insisted that the debate be over birdseed as that was something that a court could easily understand. I was much more into defending the foods aspect of the case and pressed the need for resolve of the issue before the upcoming Natural Products Expo. They disagreed with my characterization that this case was about the DEA protecting the urine testing industry and its invasion on individual privacy. The lawyers insisted that the public debate be restricted to birdseed. I also met with Ned Daly, Leda Huta and John Richard of Ralph Naders organization to discuss the implications of the recent actions on our outstanding petition for rescheduling industrial hemp with the DEA and the Department of Agriculture. My best approach was through my local congressman, Ted Strickland, a very competent, caring Democrat. Ted Strickand, a licensed psychologist, was extremely busy with the last minute compromises in the health care bill. He had little time to say anything but "hello" as passed me over to his Legislative Assistant, Brandy Tomhave. Brandy, a former public defender now working full-time on Cong. Stricklands staff, deserves a letter of thanks from all hempsters for her timely intervention into our case. Brandy took the time to listen to the situation and then went to work calling the congressional liaisons from U.S. Customs and the DEA. Predictably, the DEA deferred responsibility for the blockade at the border. They blamed it on Customs and said there was no change of policy in the DEA. Armed with the DEAs own press release from the previous week acknowledging a change in interpretation of the Controlled Substances Act to include legal hemp products, Brandy did not accept that for an answer and pressed for a real response from the DEA liaison. Customs was more cooperative and promised her an answer as quickly as possible. Brandy then asked me to stay another day so she could arrange appointments for me with the responsible agencies. The next morning, Thursday, October 7th, Brandy again made calls to the various agencies. Eventually we got good news from the congressional liaison at U.S. Customs. She said the DEA had relented and agreed
[CTRL] Land of Plenty
-Caveat Lector- 10 Percent of U.S. Households Hungry By PHILIP BRASHER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 10 percent of U.S. households are going hungry or don't have consistent access to adequate food, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. In New Mexico, 15.1 percent of households were either hungry or threatened with hunger from 1996 to 1998, according to a USDA study. Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oregon had rates of 12.6 percent or higher. Overall, hunger hit at least 10 percent of the households in 18 states, USDA said. ``During this, the most prosperous economy in decades, it should shock most Americans to learn that hunger persists and it is in every state,'' Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said. ``The problem of hunger amid America's plenty cannot and will not be ignored.'' North Dakota had by far the smallest share of households that are short of food at 4.6 percent. Four other states - Massachusetts, South Dakota, Delaware and Minnesota - had rates below 7 percent. Nationally, 9.7 percent of households were considered ``food insecure'' during the three-year period, according to USDA, which based its conclusions on annual household surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The study's results generally tracked poverty rates, but there were a few states, including Washington, Oregon and New Hampshire, where the incidence of hunger was higher. USDA officials said it was possible for a family to be living above the poverty line and still go through periods during the year when they were short of food. Local costs of living have an impact on hunger, they said, as well as family support and the availability of community nutrition programs. There also were states with high hunger rates where use of food stamps was relatively low. Nationwide, participation in food stamp program has fallen by 27 percent since 1995. While the drop is due largely to the strong economy and changes in eligibility requirements, demand has grown for food aid from other programs and nonprofit organizations. Glickman was releasing the study Thursday in Chicago at a national conference of food-assistance groups. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CIA Given Human Face by Hollywood
-Caveat Lector- "The CIA agreed to cooperate on the movie ... One of the producers had been a CIA analyst in the 1970s." CIA Goes to Hollywood By ROBERT BURNS .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - If you think about it, the CIA and Hollywood have a few things in common. Agents are actors. Spies follow scripts at times. Fiction is sometimes dressed up as fact. So maybe it should come as no surprise that the usually publicity-shy Central Intelligence Agency opened its doors to allow Showtime and Paramount Network Television to film scenes for their new movie, ``In the Company of Spies,'' in the agency's lobby and elsewhere on the closed compound. The film, scheduled to air on Showtime on Oct. 24, depicts a retired CIA operative returned to duty to save a captured agency officer held by the North Koreans. Sixty off-duty CIA officials participated as extras. To mark the most extensive CIA cooperation with movie makers ever, the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, invited the film's stars - Tom Berenger, Ron Silver, Alice Krige, Clancy Brown and Arye Gross - as well as director Tim Matheson and Washington political luminaries to a private screening and reception Wednesday evening at CIA headquarters. There was nothing cloak-and-dagger about the evening affair. In the fading light of a warm autumn day, black limousines deposited stars on the steps of the white headquarters building. Television camera lights glared and news photographers clicked away as several cast members stopped to chat with reporters. Berenger, who plays the lead role, said the CIA deserves more credit than it is generally given. ``If they do something well and right you never hear about it,'' he said. Tenet told reporters he was initially skeptical about working with Hollywood producers but is glad he did. ``They were great to work with,'' he said. ``They portrayed us in a very good light.'' Even in an era of more openness by the CIA, the idea of Hollywood stars descending on the agency's wooded compound along the Potomac River was remarkable - especially for those who work there. ``It's a change of pace, an enjoyable, fun thing'' for CIA employees who spend most of their careers behind cloaks of anonymity, said William Harlow, the agency's chief of public affairs. Only ``overt'' employees like him, whose names are publicly acknowledged by the agency, will attend, Harlow added. The CIA agreed to cooperate on the movie in 1997 after reviewing the script, Harlow said. It apparently helped that one of the producers, Robert Cort, had been a CIA analyst in the 1970s. Berenger and other cast members were given a limited tour of CIA headquarters, including a look at the agency's operations center and counter-terrorism center, and met with Tenet. Scenes were filmed at the headquarters in 1998. The CIA helped by providing advice on details. The result, Harlow said, is a film that is ``closer to the truth about what we do than most of the things you see about us in Hollywood.'' ``The CIA's objectives were clear,'' said Roger Towne, the screenwriter who also was the film's executive producer. ``They hoped to see a human face put on the agency and we had just the story to do it.'' DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Mars Orbiter
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On September 23rd, 1999 at 9:06 AM UTC, JPL lost contact with the $125
Million Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) as it passed behind Mars on it's final
orbit insertion burn. The spacecraft was carrying the Mars Color Imager
(MARCI) camera under the control Michael Malin of Malin Space Science
Systems. JPL scientists were unable to reestablish contact with the
spacecraft when it should have re-emerged from behind the Martian disk and
immediately began a series of emergency measures to communicate with the
spacecraft. As with the previous JPL/MSSS $1 billion mission Mars Observer
in 1993, these efforts went for naught when it was discovered that a
"navigation error" had likely plunged the spacecraft into a terminal crash
dive into the Martian atmosphere.
According to a tersely worded press release, the spacecraft was thrown off
course when one navigational team in Colorado and the other at JPL used two
separate measurement systems (Metric and Imperial) to perform key
navigational calculations. The Lockheed/Martin team transmitted acceleration
data in the English system, and controllers at JPL assumed that it was
Metric. According to press reports, this process had been ongoing since the
launch of the spacecraft in December, 1998.
This highly implausible and bizarre set of circumstances caused some minor
upset on Capitol Hill ("I'm speechless." said one Congressman) but otherwise
created nowhere near the fire storm that surrounded the loss of Mars
Observer. Still, as we will show, this very suspicious and convenient
"error" had all the usual earmarks of another NASA ritual killing.
To begin with, the notion that this error could have been induced from the
beginning of the mission and gone unnoticed is ridiculous. All
interplanetary spacecraft take an incredible amount of effort to get from
"A" to "B". The considerations of such an undertaking, the relative
positions of the two planets (Mars and Earth) at launch, their relative
speeds as they orbit the sun, their rotational speeds, the gravitational
effects of not only the two major bodies but also of most of the other
objects in the solar system -- all must be accounted for in this elegant
dance called "Celestial Mechanics." While exceedingly complex, these factors
are also exceedingly well defined and predictable.
This is why all missions are set up on the concept of waypoints. As the
spacecraft travels the hundreds of millions of miles from one world to the
next, it passes a series of check points at which its position, speed, and
trajectory are checked against the predictions. Any deviation is immediately
noted and a course correction burn is initiated as necessary.
And, the farther away and faster it goes, the more pronounced an error would
become. According to AP:
" The bad numbers had been used ever since the spacecraft's launch last
December, but the effect was so small that it went unnoticed. The difference
added up over the months as the spacecraft journeyed toward Mars."
To anyone with the slightest understanding of measurement systems and
orbital mechanics, this statement, apparently sourced from inside NASA, is
ludicrous. The conversion factor from pounds of thrust (Imperial) to
Newton's (Metric) is 4.44 Newton's to the pound. This means that from the
beginning of the mission, the velocity calculations should have been off by
some 75%! And nobody noticed this "minute" error?!
In fact, by the time of the MOI burn, the spacecraft should not have been
anywhere near Mars! That is why NASA's explanation (excuse) is so
unbelievable. If there were any error introduced and not noticed by the
"honest folks" at JPL, it would almost certainly have had to come at the MOI
burn itself.
Even Dr. Tom Van Flandern, former head of the celestial mechanics (the
science of interplanetary navigation and celestial motions) branch of the
U.S. Naval Observatory, a staunch anti-consipirasist and defender of the
system, has been forced to admit the obvious:
"I wouldn't take the cover story literally -- It's just an excuse the public
might be able to understand and sympathize with, but with little connection
to reality. We'll find out the truth when the outside investigation releases
its report."
This explanation is in fact so bad, so obviously contrived and untenable, so
in violation of the first rule of academia -- "Thou shalt not look foolish
to ones peers" -- that it begs the question of whether some inside NASA/JPL
actually want to get caught! Are the "Roosters" trying to out the "Owls" by
floating an excuse that will actually demand an investigation?
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[CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim Crusades
-Caveat Lector- Bishop: Islam Expanding Conquests VATICAN CITY (AP) - Islam is driving into predominantly Christian countries in a new campaign of expansion and conquest, a bishop at a Vatican synod claimed Wednesday in a warning to his European colleagues. Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, archbishop of Izmir in Turkey, spoke at a synod of European bishops on what he said was Islam's growing challenge to Christianity, even on its home ground. ``The 'domination' has already started with petrodollars, used not to create jobs in poor countries in North Africa and the Middle East, but to build mosques and cultural centers in Christian countries ... including Rome, center of Christianity,'' Bernardini declared. ``Who cannot see in this a clear program of expansion and reconquest?'' he asked. The dire tone of his warning contrasted with repeated overtures to the Islamic world by Pope John Paul II, whose comments on Islam frequently stress the values it shares with Christianity. The archbishop was one of several at the synod to express frustration in dealing with the Islamic world, however. Others in the weeklong session have spoken of the need for cooperation between Muslims and Christians. Bernardini suggested the church call a synod specifically on the theme of Islam in predominantly Christian countries. As a first, practical step, he said, Catholics must see to it that none of their churches are ceded to Muslims for practice of their faith. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] How blonde are you ?
-Caveat Lector- I always thought I had missed my vocation. Peter This is clever don't cheat. I'm a closet blonde How blonde are you ? It is a TEST. Actually do it for real. There are 10 questions, so you should be able to answer them all in 5 minutes. DO NOT look at the answers found at the end of this document, that would be cheating! Write each of your answers down, it makes a difference! 1. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days? 2. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken? 3. I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being awoken by the alarm? 4. Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get? 5. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left? 6. If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first? 7. A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear? 8. Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have? 9. How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark? 10. If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what's the name of the driver? Scroll down for answers. ANSWERS : 1) All of them. Every month has at least 28 days. 2) 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o'clock, then another at 1.30 and the last at 2 o'clock, they will be taken in 1 hour. 3) 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate between a.m. and p.m. 4) 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2. 5) 9 live sheep. 6) The match. 7) White. If all walls face south, the house must be on the North Pole. 8) 2 apples. I HAVE 3 APPLES, YOU TAKE 2, WHAT DO YOU HAVE? 9) None. It was Noah, not Moses. 10) YOU are the driver. Grading Scale (out of 10) 10 Genius 9Mensa Member 8Engineer 7Student 6High school pupil 5Primary school pupil 4Teacher 3College lecturer 2University lecturer 1Member of Congress 0Blonde We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage Bargain Books http://bn.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1349732?siteid=10734186bfpage=b DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [prj] HOW TO DEFEAT STATISM
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the Internet Conspiracy Community: From: Mark A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [prj] HOW TO DEFEAT STATISM Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 1:57 PM Free Rare/Out-of-Print Book Searches - Ruling Class/Conspiracy Experts: E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** END HOW TO DEFEAT STATISM Even though I have clearly defined statism in Fatal Blindness, I still occasionally receive e-mail asking me to define the term "statism." I also receive some mail, not a lot, that maintains that it is hopeless to attempt to defeat statism. What is evident is the fact that most do not understand the meaning of statism. Nor do they understand what a pathetically impotent enemy statism is and just how vulnerable it is. Neither do most understand that the key to defeating statists is really very simple, right in front of everyone's nose. Statism is the doctrine that maintains that your life, money and property are not yours. It is the idea that you may only take those actions permitted by the state, that you may be forced to surrender your money to the state or forbidden to spend it as you please, that you may not use and dispose of your property as you see fit. In other words, statism declares that you do not have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Tellingly, you will never hear statist politicians openly maintain that you do not have the right to your life, money and propertyeven though this is, in fact, the basic principle underlying all of their claims. Statist politicians do not make this explicit and with good reason. They advance this underlying idea by implication and by subterfugeand this fact is the key to defeating statism. A statist does not openly state that your life, money and property are not yours. Instead, he claims that there is a "right" to health carewhich means: your life is to be forcibly mortgaged to pay for the health care of others; and this means your life and money are not yours. Statist politicians claim there is a "right" to educationwhich means: you are going to be forced to pay for someone else's education; and this means your money is not yours. Statist politicians claim "essential public services" must be maintained through property taxeswhich means: you must pay an annual fee to retain possession of your property; and this means your "ownership" of your property is conditional, that your property is not yours. Statism can be defeated if political debate is reframed, if statists are made to defend the actual meaning of their ideas. If this ever happens, then statists will lose since they cannot win such a debate, at least not in Americaat least not now. If you wish to defend your right to your life, your money and property, you must make that the issue. You must focus on this single issue and hold statist politicians' feet to the fire on it. Don't let them off the hook on this matter, otherwise they will continue to win. You have to make them attempt to defend the indefensible. Once this occurs, statists will be on the defensive, squirming for some way to avoid the question: is your life, money and property yours? Let statists attempt to promote the growth of the state and the decline of freedom by declaring that your life is not yours, that you have no right to it, that you do not have the right to live your life according to your own judgment, that you live, not by right, but by permission of the state. They will not be able to win a debate on such terms. Like vampires, statists cannot survive if their real ideas see daylight. Some dispirited souls will undoubtedly say that defeating statism cannot be this simple. Their reaction will be: if it were that simple then someone else would have thought of it and tried it. Well, others have thought of it but not in sufficient numbers to yet make much of a difference. Defeating statism cannot be accomplished single-handedly. It must be done in concert with others, lots of others. Focusing the debate on the issue of your right to your life, money and property will not be accomplished overnight. First, it will begin with a trickle on the Internet, then gradually spread to other communication outlets. But spread it will. And eventually it will burst into public debate during an election campaign. How long will this take? I do not know, but as increasing numbers flock to the Internet it could happen quickly. It could even happen in time for the 2000 elections. Let the new debate begin. Fulton Huxtable April 19, 1999 © Copyright 1999 Fulton Huxtable http://www.fatalblindness.com A Growing Selection of A-albionic's Books Can Be Browsed and Purchased Conveniently in the Shopping Cart at http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html END
[CTRL] Constitution: Fact or Fiction?
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the Internet Conspiracy Community: From: Book Search Co-ordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Constitution: Fact or Fiction? Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:27 PM -Original Message- From: Joe Feck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 2:55 PM Subject: [CTRL] Constitution: Fact or Fiction -Caveat Lector- http://buffalo-creek-press.com/cffrev.htm Constitution: Fact or Fiction by Dr. Eugene Schroder with Micki Nellis The Story of the Nation's Descent from a Constitutional Republic through a Constitutional Dictatorship to an Unconstitutional Dictatorship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explains how the president can send 500,000 troops to fight overseas with or without the consent of congress, how he can bail out the Mexican economy over the objections of the American people, and why we have lost our Constitutionally guaranteed rights. The government's own documents prove the case. Constitution: Fact or Fiction Through the insidious, yet steady encroachment of "emergency powers," the government has achieved the ability to rule by statute or decree, without the vote or consent of the ruled. Senate Report 93549, written in 1973, said "Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency." It goes on to say "A majority of the people of the United States have lived all their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of National emergency. In the United States, actions taken by government in times of great crisis have ... in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of National emergency." And further "These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of allencompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule this country without reference to normal constitutional process. "Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens." The US constitution provided for the president to be granted emergency powers in times of war or enemy attack. The fatal flaw in the constitution, however, is that the only provision to end emergency powers is for the president to declare the emergency ended. Once the president has these powers, he himself must relinquish them. Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have failed to reinstate the constitution and give up these emergency powers. Today we see the president and entrenched bureaucracy passing rules through the executive branch's many agencies without challenge from congress or the judicial system, originally meant to provide checks and balances. The emergency powers clause was included in the Constitution so that a president could legally assume all powers in case of rebellion or enemy invasion if the public safety required it, and was intended to be terminated immediately at the end of the crisis. Through a maze of political maneuvers, the emergency powers granted to President Roosevelt in 1933 have become part of the U.S. Code as permanent everyday powers. America has continued under the "constitutional dictatorship" of war and emergency powers to this day, more than 60 years later. In reality, under this "constitutional dictatorship," the people have no rights except those granted by the government. Under our constitutional government, the people retained all rights except those specifically granted to the government. Government has grown so big, so unreachable, that the ordinary citizen has no chance to influence it. Even those with clout and political savvy, such as state governors, are stymied. The US government today, with its inflated bureaucracy, political posturing, and ineffectual programs, would be a laughingstock if it weren't for the sinister side arbitrary seizure of property without proven cause by many government agencies, ruthless invasion of privacy, federally mandated but unfunded programs that are choking the states' right to rule themselves, an unsound money system based on debt, and de facto economic depression for the last 10 years. A growing separation between "haves" and "have nots" makes a powder keg on a slow fuse. Today most Americans have not been taught the constitution, have never enjoyed the constitutional
[CTRL] Gold Standard to make a comeback eventually and used by US of Europe?
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the Internet Conspiracy Community: From: Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gold Standard to make a comeback eventually and used by US of Europe? Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:19 PM Just as the British Empire was accused of being the product of a conspiracy by all sorts, so is the American Empire. Slowly, the American (read Manasseh's) Empire (sometimes called the NWO by those who do not understand that the Old World Order is the system which the Bible predicts will be our adversary) is unravelling. In this light I thought I would post this item which I saw on a forum for your information. Those who have read Dr Sutton's books will recall that he warned of an eventual falling out between a gold-backed European currency and the US dollar. In a personal letter to me some years ago he predicted that the USA will eventually be isolated on the world stage. Craig Tophat Historically Gold was seen as the "ultimate currency" This means that in times past people did not view Gold in US$ terms but more US$ in Gold Terms- Just let that sink in for a minute. Now, ever since Nixon removed the backing of Gold from the US$ there has been a huge expansion of US$ money supply(the US$ can now merely be printed- rather than requiring an increased amount of gold to back the currency)This increase in money supply is the purists definition of Inflation(as opposed to the laymans definition which is rising prices) The reason the POG rises in times of inflation(times of increased numbers of US$ floating around the world) is that for each ounce of gold that exists in the world, there is an expanding amount of US$- the result an ounce of Gold is seen to be "worth" more US$(some would say that a US$ becomes worth less gold) The Big Debate- Many say that the relationship between Gold and the US$ no longer exists.They point to the huge explosion in the US$ supply and the declining Gold price. Others say that the diminished role of Gold as a measure of money is temporary(temporary in the sense that the last 20 years is a small time historically) and will only last for as long as we(the world) have confidence in the US$ and are prepared to accept it as a non depreciating store of wealth(but every time an extra US$ is printed the currency IS being depreciated) So for as long as we all have confidence in the US$, the US$ will remain king and Golds role will remain diminished. Things to consider- 1. Statements by the G7 recently indicate that they are fed up (no pun intended) with the irresposible monetary actions of Big Al eg cutting interest rates to save the world last October when their economy was already overheated(The fed were not trying to save the world they were merely trying to protect US interests-read investments in emerging economies) 2. Japanese are fed up (ok pun intended this time) with Big Al too. Even though the appreciating YEN is hurting japanese exporters and threatening their fragile recovery, the Japanese see the problem as a US$ weakness and not a YEN strengthening.They point to the Bubble stock market and the US economy overheating as evidence. (remember the huge expansion in US$ has to go somewhere, and it seems it has gone into the stockmarket and US Bonds- the latter keeps interest rates artificially low) In short the major economies of the world are signalling that they have lost confidence in the US to be responsible.They are now seeing the worlds emerging problems as a US problem and resent the US lecturing to them about how they must do this or that so that the world doesnt go into recession. I believe that the US has got the message and explains why they are finally prepared to "cut gold loose" and also explains why Greenspan has no choice but to raiseinterst rates soon. Sorry for the long winded explanation but without the full picture(and there are no doubt many gaps) you cnot fully understand the Gold/inflation relationship. Hope this helps Cheers *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/formaddress.html For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text in body: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Every Diet Has Failed! What Can I do? Click Below to "Ask Dr. Kathleen"!
[CTRL] J Edgar Hoover Refused to Endorse Orwell Novel!
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the Internet Conspiracy Community: From: Book Search Co-ordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: J Edgar Hoover Refused to Endorse Orwell Novel! Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:22 PM Original Message- From: Joe Feck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:05 AM Subject: [CTRL] George Orwell to Hoover: Please Endorse My Book -Caveat Lector- http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/orwell/index.html George Orwell to Hoover: Please Endorse My Book Author's Publicist Sent 1984 to FBI Director Sept. 20, 1999 By Janon Fisher AP George Orwell NEW YORK (APBnews.com) -- In what could have been the ultimate marketing coup, the publisher of George Orwell's novel 1984 asked America's incarnation of Big Brother, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, to endorse the book. According to Orwell's FBI file, released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, Hoover declined. Instead, Hoover filed the request in a dossier he created on Orwell. FBI files show that in April 1949, Eugene Reynal, vice president of Harcourt, Brace and Co., wrote Hoover, arguably the incarnation of Orwell's authoritarian bureaucracy, for his thumbs up on the book. Related Document: George Orwell's FBI File "We hope you might be interested in helping to call this book to the attention of the American public, and thus perhaps helping to halt totalitarianism," Reynal wrote. Did Hoover read the book? While it isn't clear what Hoover thought of the book, or even if he read Orwell's fictionalized account of an out-of-control totalitarian government, the file shows that Hoover's opinion was beside the point. Endorsements were against bureau policy. Thus, fans of the English novelist may never know whether Hoover objected to Orwell's placement of the Thought Police under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Love. But Hoover, in a very un-Orwellian move, said 'No' politely. "While I am looking forward to reading the book at the earliest opportunity, you are advised that in accordance with a long-standing policy I have refrained from lending my endorsement to commercial publications, and I am sure you will understand my inability to make an exception in this instance," Hoover replied. The copy of the book Reynal sent to Hoover wound up in the FBI library. Nevertheless, the bureau stayed on top of the situation. Another internal memo in the file with the subject heading "Smear Campaign/Committee for a return to the homeland internal security," discussed an article in a Russian-language newspaper arguing that 1984 was a portrayal of life in the United States. "Let us give what is due to the Hoovers," the memo states. "The mechanization of police surveillance of average Americans has assumed imposing proportions, especially in the technique of listening in on telephone conversations. This art has reached fabulous heights in the United States." The article concludes that "there is one field in the American life that never yet has suffered a decline, but is flourishing year after year. It is police surveillance and investigation. Indeed, in this field, America has surpassed the world and has no equals." Though the bureau might have looked on the Russian article as part of a smear campaign -- as its FBI categorization suggests -- there was more than a grain of truth to its assertions. According to The FBI Comprehensive Reference Guide, Congress banned wiretapping in 1934. But President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a secret directive that allowed the bureau to tap phone lines with the attorney general's permission. The "Black Bag Jobs" described in the guide required FBI operatives to illegally break into residences and offices targeted for surveillance. Other Orwellian advancements in government monitoring of citizenry have kept up with the times. According to press reports, the National Security Agency operates a global spy system code-named ECHELON, which coordinates intelligence-gathering by spy agencies in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain. Under the program, the agencies share intelligence-gathering duties and some of the intercepted information. In general, each country limits spying on its own citizens. However, a former Canadian intelligence official has claimed the British government once got around the rules by using Canada's Communications Security Establishment to collect intelligence on British citizens. Orwell's offspring If not for the original appearance of Big Brother, Orwell's prophetic book might now seem cliche. Movies today, such as Enemy of the State or The Truman Show, continue to delve into the issue of government invasion of privacy. "Nothing will be your own, private, exclusive, except a few cubic centimeters inside your cranium," Orwell wrote. Orwell's earlier novel Animal Farm also caught the FBI director's eye. The Orwell file includes
[CTRL] EU Commission Proposes Accelerating Its Expansion Talks With Six Nations
-Caveat Lector- .. Forwarded from the Internet Conspiracy Community: From: Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EU Commission Proposes Accelerating Its Expansion Talks With Six Nations Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:42 PM This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0056_01BF15EA.A4CD1EE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EU Commission Proposes Accelerating Its Expansion Talks With Six Nations By James G. Neuger=20 EU Commission Urges Expansion of Enlargement Talks (Update2) (Adds comments on Czech progress in 13th paragraph.)=20 Brussels, Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Romano Prodi's new European Commission proposed opening European Union membership talks with six more mainly Eastern European countries, while ruling out a quick extension of the bloc's common currency to the other side of the former Iron Curtain.=20 The commission recommended that the EU upgrade Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Malta to the status of full applicants. It declared Turkey a ``candidate country'' though put off negotiations until Turkey improves its human rights record.=20 Prodi's recommendation challenges the EU's 15 governments to push ahead with the expansion of the bloc, while refusing to set entry deadlines. It also gives Eastern European governments political cover to proceed with painful economic reforms such as cuts in subsidies and the overhaul of the welfare system. ``For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, we have the opportunity to unite Europe,'' said Prodi, a former Italian prime minister. He called his expansion strategy ``bold and imaginative while remaining practical and realistic.''=20 Eastern Europe's more advanced economies -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia -- began negotiating EU membership together with Cyprus last year. Prodi called for decisions starting in 2002 on the eligible countries, suggesting the first new members could join as early as 2003 or 2004.=20 The signal to start talks with the remaining six in 2000 would have to come from EU leaders at a summit in Helsinki in December. The commission called for ``differentiated'' negotiations with each country proceeding at its own pace.=20 Level Playing Field ``It is important that our immediate neighbors have the same chances as us,'' Estonian Economics Minister Mihkel Paernoja said in Helsinki today. ``We feel quite uncomfortable that they have not been included to date.''=20 The recommendations by Prodi's commission, in office for a month, came with a number of strings attached. The new 11-nation common currency, the euro, should remain off limits to the Eastern states until well after they have joined, the commission said.=20 It could be ``highly damaging'' for countries still shaking off the legacy of communism to lock their exchange rate forever to the currency of the West's advanced economies, the commission said.=20 Poland, the largest of the EU's would-be Eastern members, was singled out for criticism for its failure to modernize its steel and farming industries. EU leaders are concerned that Polish farmers would need extra subsidies, which already eat up half of the bloc's 90 billion euro ($97 billion) central budget. ``We can say the bottle is half full or half empty,'' said Andrzej Harasimowicz, information director at the Polish committee on EU integration in Warsaw.=20 Czech Republic=20 In the Czech Republic, the commission's criticism of the slow pace of reforms risks adding to the growing political firestorm that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Milos Zeman's government, analysts said.=20 The commission knocked the Czech government for dragging its feet on legal changes in areas including health, labor, justice and the environment. The report came as former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus' Civic Democratic Party, the main opposition party, threatened to end the cooperation that brought a Social Democratic-led minority government to power last year.=20 In addition, Bulgaria was told that negotiations are contingent on a decision by the end of the year on ``acceptable'' dates for closing four unsafe nuclear reactors and on more evidence of economic progress. Romania was ordered to overhaul and pump more money into its child care institutions, and to take more steps to stabilize the economy.=20 Collision Course=20 Strategic necessity has collided with economic realities in the enlargement talks. While quick expansion is a favorite subject of political speechmaking, shouldering the costs is another matter.=20 The countries closest to the East -- Germany and Austria -- fear an influx of cheap migrant labor. The EU's poorer states -- Spain, Portugal and Greece -- fear that they will have to compete with the East's lesser-developed economies for EU subsidies.=20
[CTRL] Are you Ready to Rock n Roll
-Caveat Lector- from that same page of Hoaglands. Eye wide Open Peter http://www.enterprisemission.com/mco.htm For some time now it has been our quietly held position that NASA's chief aim was to find a way "off planet" in the event of a cometary impact or even a "12th planet" pole shifting scenario. We see the possible "precursor event" (comet or asteroid impact) as the "little problem," and the pole shift as the "big problem." Our own research into "Hyperdimensional Physics" has led us to conclude that there is a possibility -- indeed an inherent probability -- that a pole shift without the benefit of a "12th Planet" is plausible. As Hoagland described in "The Lost Tombs Part V" there is disturbing evidence that the Earth's "precession" -- it's "wobble" on the central axis of rotation -- is caused not by the gravitational tug of the Moon, but by an unseen and as yet not understood "internal force." This "higher dimensional tug" is acting on the planet from within, trying to move it into proper resonance with the rest of the solar system. The historical record also implies that this steady "precess" is subject to sudden and catastrophic (for the planet's inhabitants) shifts, causing the Earth itself to literally "flip" in an attempt to realign with this unseen force. This cyclic upheaval in the planets axial rotation may have been caused by the destruction of a planet in the "Bode orbit" between Mars and Jupiter. Since in the Hyperdimensional model the planets are all connected, the destruction of this planet would have sent the entire solar system into "dissonance." The periodic pole shifts are an attempt to create a more resonant alignment with the other bodies in the system. While this may seem far-fetched, consider the case of our 7th planet, Uranus. Uranus has been violently pulled off it's more proper "normal" orientation to the plane of the ecliptic to be almost 90° from the solar "North." This bizarre condition has no conventional explanation. Yet does fit quite well within the Hyperdimensional model. An artist's concept of the Venturestar entitled "Heading out." Heading out to where? Obviously, the rank and file billions of us could not be saved from the consequences of such an event. Assuming that NASA was restricted to currently acknowledged technology (read: not "Hyperships") it would likely be possible only to save a few hundred, if that, of the "elite." These individuals would be selected from the crème de la crème of our society, the most genetically desirable and materially accomplished of our civilization. This "escape plan" would probably involve the use of a clandestinely-produced fleet of the upcoming Lockheed "Venture Star" spacecraft [the new single stage-to-orbit space shuttle replacement based on the nearly ready "X-33" (what else?!) development craft currently being assembled at the ultra secret Palmdale and "Skunk Works facilities] as a sort of Noah's Ark for the 20th century and the new IS(I)S station. It matters not whether we face any real threat. What matters is that NASA/JPL, managed by the Pentagon and possibly other unseen handlers, certainly believe it. They have been tasked with finding out if the threat is real, and if it is, to find a way out. Imagine our surprise when we found an entry in a popular web site, "Zeta-Talk," which outlined exactly these same ideas we had been privately contemplating. This site purports to be the perspective of the "Zeta's," the tiny little big-headed bug-eyed aliens commonly known as the "Grays." As with all such sites, we take the data presented there with a grain of salt, assuming it to be "disinformation" -- a few truths intermixed with many lies in order to give credibility to the lies. The crux of the information deals with a coming "pole-shift" (actually a crustal shift) caused by the close approach of Zechariah Sitchin's legendary "12th planet." We do not necessarily reject this perspective out of hand, but as we stated above, we are not convinced that a massive close approaching object is a prerequisite to this doomsday We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage Bargain Books http://bn.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1349732?siteid=10734186bfpage=b DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives
[CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] Conspiracy scholar's nook
Title: We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboardhttp://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepageBargain Bookshttp://bn.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1349732?siteid=10734186bfpage=b - Original Message - From: Dave To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 8:44 PM Subject: [CTRL] Conspiracy scholar's nook Dave Hartleyhttp://www.Asheville-Computer.comhttp://www.ioa.com/~daveharthttp://www.biblebelievers.org.au/weekdx.htm Conspiracy Scholar's Nook Conspiracy Scholars Welcome Home Larry Abraham*Gary Allen*George ArmstrongRabbi Marvin S. AntelmanDavid Astle*Randall N. BaerMichael Baigent*Abbe Barruel*John T. Beaty*Don BellJames BillingtonWilliam BramleyTal BrookesWilliam BrooksMay Brussell*Taylor Caldwell*William Guy CarrAnton ChaitkinCherep-SpiridovichA.K. ChestertonJ.R. ChurchDr. John ColemanWilliam Cooper*Major General Count*Phoebe CourtneyDr. Dennis Laurence CuddyConstance Cumbey*Curtis B. DallJohn DanielsJames DewarZygmund Dobbs*Dr. Bella Dodd*Norman DoddG. William DomhoffJames R. DrummeyThomas R. DyeA. Ralph EppersonJulius Epstein*Rev. Denis Fahey*Myron Fagan*Arthur Nelson FieldPaul A. FisherJohn Flynn*Henry FordSydney H. FosterTheodor FriesingerElliott GermaineRobert Henry GoldsboroughDes GriffinG. Edward GriffinWilliam GriederThomas M. HarrisWilliam P. HoarMichael HowardRichard Kelly Hoskins*Captain Arthur HowardWilliam F. JasperAlan B. JonesPastor Earl Jones*Emanuel M. JosephsonGary H. KahRev. Clarence KellyH.S. KennanDevvy KiddDorothy KilgallenSalem Kirban*Arthur KitsonLance J. Klass*Stephen KnightGeorge KnupfferLyndon LaRoucheJeremy LeeRichard LeighHenry J. LincolnPaolo LionniFrank LowsonFerdinand LundbergMarlin Maddoux*Dean Clarence Manion*Louis MarchalkoTexe MarrsMalachi Martin*Rose L. MartinJohn McConaughyRep. Louis T. McFadden*William M. McGovernWilliam McIlhaney IIJohn F. McManusPaul McGuireWilliam MinterPhilip N. MooreEustace MullinsGary NorthCarl OglesbyEdmond ParisSeth PaysonJames PerloffLeonard PiekoffMichael Collins Piper*William Robert Plumme*Robert L. PrestonEliz. Clare ProphetLady Queenborough*B. Carroll ReeceArchibald RobertsPat RobertsonJohn J. RobinsonEdmona RonayueRobt. Gaylon Ross, Sr.Dr. Ed RoweAllen Salisbury*Aaron SargentPhyllis SchlaflyDr. Fred SchwartzOtto J. ScottGeorge SeldesLaurance H. ShoupGary SickCollin SimpsonHolly SklarW. Cleon Skousen*Dan SmootFritz SpringmeierAlan StangPaul StevensRodney StichWilliam T. Still*Johnny E. StewartJohn A. StormerAntony SuttonWilliam Josiah SuttonWebster Griffin TarpleyPeter ThompsonJames P. Tucker Jr.James L. TysonWickliffe Vennard, SrVeritas FoundationChester Ward*Nesta WebsterRichard S. WheelerJohn K. Whitley*Jonathan Williams*Robert H. Williams*Rene WormserDee Zahner* deceasedAdditions are invitedHome http://www.biblebelievers.net/Subscribe Bible Believers' Newsletter Research Intern Positions Available Conspiracy Scholar Intern Tools Selected Elites 16 years of Bilderbergers with the 197 invitees to 1999 Convention Original Trustees of CEIP Appointed by Carnegie (1910) An Introduction to the "Little Sister" of The Royal Institute of International Affairs: The U.S. Council on Foreign Relations South African Institute of International Affairs, RIIA, CFR Initial List of Council on Foreign Relations Members Initial Membership List of Rhodes Scholars Initial Membership List of the Bavarian Illuminati Initial Membership List of the Knights of Malta Initial List of 33rd Degree Masons Membership List of 1912 "Money Trust" Membership of the Atlantic Council of the US A Journalist's Introduction to Skull and Bones Yale's Skull Bones Membership List to 1983 Trilateral Commission - Key Members Links to some Key Players in The Week That Just Was Booklists for Suggested Reading Books -- Natural Realm Books -- Spiritual Realm Monthly Book Recommendation - "Hot" Conspiracy Titles New World Order -- One World VOL. 1. NO. 12 to May 10, 1999 VOL. 1. NO. 11 to January 10, 1999 VOL. 1. NO. 10 to January 3, 1999 VOL. 1. NO. 9 to December 27, 1998 VOL. 1. NO. 8 to December 20, 1998 VOL. 1. NO. 7 to December 13, 1998 VOL. 1. NO. 6 to December 6, 1998 VOL. 1. NO. 5 to November 29, 1998 VOL. 1. NO. 4 to November 22, 1998 VOL. 1. NO. 3
[CTRL] [Fwd: [MC] Time Antenna = MC Remedy from Torsion finger shock phenomenon extension?]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [MC] Time Antenna = MC Remedy from Torsion "finger shock phenomenon" extension? Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:44:17 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "David Crockett Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "a SpirWbList - Science Spirituality" [EMAIL PROTECTED],"Mind Control List" [EMAIL PROTECTED],"Antigrav-list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This below referenced url was posted recently on the serious http://www.egroups.com/group/antigrav list. For those who care to tinker in these things, an additional experiment might be to replicate the "time antenna" claimed by Preston Nichols (in his book "The Montauk Project" about covert extensions of Philadelphia Experiment physics to time travel, mind/machine interfaces, direct materialization of physical objects, etc.) to have aided suppressed memory recovery by simply holding a related configuration of wire similar to that described below but with no center wire, rather a full octahedral array of wire instead of the half octahedral pyramid as described below. This "time antenna", Nichols maintains, helped him by simply holding it in his hands to recover his memory lost by covert tech ops while he was working in EM induced altered memory state as project engineer at Montauk Point deep black ops research on advanced EM technologies. His claim is that this array apparently somehow enables a small degree of connection by the holder to the "zero time" experience of the sailors/subjects of the Philadelphia Experiment where the USS Eldridge purportedly disappeared and reappeared in the early 1940's in experiments to try to render the ship invisible to radar but the equipment was to powerful and the ship dematerialized and rematerialized later, killing most of the crew but those who survived had a full "zero time" experience which drove all but one or two of them mad to suicide etc but the survivor became a complete empath hooked up to equipment in the Monatauk Project Experiments which connected directly to his mental processes under hypnosis, so the story goes. There may be nothing to it, but it is a really simple device to make with wire and test and in any case this is what came to mind from reading the below at midnight. If "mental programming" "mind control" stories are in some cases valid, perhaps this "time antenna" octahedral array may be worth experimenting with in light of new torsion field theoretical physics understandings, and biological influences/effects as below described, in order to recover lost memory or even perhaps to neutralize hypnotic suggestions. But if there is anything to this idea, could it help recall suppressed memories of scary encounters (metallic voices or ufo's?) buried by some trauma or external mental instruction? If so, would documentation of these kinds of recall enhancement experiences lend any credence or insights to Nichols' other claims about Montauk technologies? Among his claims is their creation of a "time tunnel" that transported equipment and teams to and from selected times and places in the future and that the movie/TV-show called "Stargate" is loosely patterned after that secret experiment and their others covertly funded by US(CIA?) unaccounted capture of a huge shipment of Nazi gold bullion after WWII. Observably, science history quite closely follows behind science fiction. To "make it so", do we just add some more science or must we also remove some of the friction? BTW for those with deeper understandings of the nature of coincidence, in the name of leading 20th century experimental physicist Bruce E. DePalma http://www.depalma.pair.com the E stands for Eldridge. (E=mcC?) "May The Force Be With You": Oh-Be-One, Can-You-Be? -begin url referenced above: http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/tors/pyrademo.txt [shades of "pyramid power"?]-dcw TORSION "FINGER SHOCK" PHENOMENON -- 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The "shape effect" The "shape effect" produced by torsion fields can be felt by most people (without any detectors). For instance, try to make (or have somebody make) a skeletal wire pyramid having the following proportions. The base of the pyramid is a square. If the side of this square is equal to 1, then the height of a pyramid is equal to 0.618. That's the proportions of the Great Pyramid, the pyramid of Cheops exactly.) The pyramid may consist of edges only, e.g. it can be made of copper wire. The height of the pyramid (e.g. the segment of copper wire that connects the top of the pyramid and the center of its base) should be made also. If the side of the base of the pyramid has the size 20cm, then the height = 12.36 cm. The central wire is attached to the apex, and extends downwards to the center of the base, and the lower end of this wire attaches to nothing. OK to use solder to construct this. To prevent curving of the wires, use thick wires (2mm - 4mm diameter.) Hold the pyramid by its
[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Update / Oct. 14 / Sean Gonsalves / A Letter tio Mr
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Michael Albert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is today's ZNet Commentary Delivery from Sean Gonsalves. A Letter to Mrs. Bush By Sean Gonsalves I recently received a copy of a letter that was sent to the former First Lady, Barbara Bush. The letter was written by six mothers whose children are in jail because of the "war on drugs" - a "war" avidly supported by Barbara's son, George W., who is running for President. All six mothers are members of the Colville, Washington-based November Coalition. What follows is the full-text of the letter. You may find it as interesting and moving as I did. "Dear Mrs. Bush - In recent weeks, your son, Texas Governor George W. Bush, has faced questions regarding his youthful drug use. Recently, you responded to the media onslaught regarding the matter, saying that possible illicit drug use by your son or any other candidate for political office in their youth is largely 'irrelevant.' You asked the media to stop 'trashing' candidates. "We are mothers too, and we understand your maternal instinct to defend your son. We agree that a person should not have their integrity questioned, nor their future put in jeopardy, simply because of a youthful indiscretion involving an illicit substance. Young people, we all know, are prone to disregard risks to their health and safety. This is especially true when a young person is already abusing a drug like alcohol, as your son has bravely acknowledged doing in his own youth. "Despite our sympathy for your position, we respectfully believe that Governor Bush implied past drug use, and his views about it, are extremely relevant for evaluating his sense of fairness and justice. This is a different question from whether his drug use, if any, is by itself a disqualification from being president. We too do not think it is a disqualification. "You see, our boys also committed 'youthful indiscretions.' But in their cases, the prosecutors and courts called them 'felonies.' They are each serving sentences of a decade or more (some far more) for their poor choices. But those bad choices didn't have to ruin their lives, or the lives of their families. Most young people mature, including those who act foolishly and self-destructively by using drugs. Most go on to become productive citizens - just like your son. "Today, there are nearly 500,000 men and women serving time in America's prisons and jails for drug law offenses - overwhelmingly low-level, nonviolent offenses. Incarcerating these men and women costs taxpayers more than $10 billion annually. Most of these prisoners are poor, and increasingly non-white. Last year, more than 700,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana possession alone. These young people cannot apply for any job without disclosing their own 'youth indiscretions,' because their indiscretions became criminal records that are permanent. Many can never vote again, much less dream of running for public office. "Youthful drug use, an issue that you and your son both claim is 'irrelevant' to the Governor's personal history, has been made permanently relevant to us by the drug polices of the federal government and the fifty states, including Texas. Our sons will have no second chances. "Mrs. Bush, we suggest it is time that you have a mother-to-son talk with George Jr. Every mother wants her children to succeed and be healthy and happy. As mothers, we teach out children that equal protection under the law insures them that they can not be unfairly held back by accidents of birth, race, disability, class, gender, etc. Equal opportunity applies to all kids, even those who make youthful mistakes. "Please tell your son that not every child in America grew up with the many advantages that he has enjoyed. Share with him the reality that without the advantages of position and class - access to excellent attorneys, adequate educational and employment opportunities, etc. - hundreds of thousands of young men and former young men sit in our nation's prisons; many in Texas, many for nonviolent crimes. The essence of these crimes is that they were young and reckless, that they lacked faith in themselves or in their economic opportunities. "Please remind him that hundreds of thousands of mothers, wives and children cry themselves to sleep at night, hoping and praying to live long enough to see their loved ones free. Please ask you son to promise you that if he becomes president, he will think long and hard about the injustices of our nation's longest war - the 'war on drugs.' "We know in our hearts that you are profoundly proud of your children, Mrs. Bush. Perhaps you can convince George W. that if he becomes President he should give loving mothers, just like you, another chance to rekindle pride and hope in their children. Sincerely, Mothers of Drug War Prisoners: Marianne Bassett, Mattapoisett, MA; Susan Bobby, Valparaiso, IN; Diane
[CTRL] A new order: Adam Smith revisited
-Caveat Lector- Cape Cod Times | Sean Gonsalves Column, October 12, 1999A new order: Adam Smith revisited October 12, 1999 http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/edits/seang.htm With an eye on the World Trade Organization summit to be held in Seattle next month, let's talk about a guy named Adam Smith. You see, Smith is considered by most economists and egg-heads to be the "father of modern economics." And given the religious zealotry with which millions of Americans cling to "free-market" dogma, Smith is clearly one of the most influential thinkers in modern history. Conservatives consider him one of their patron saints. Unfortunately, many on the Left - Robert Heilbroner's scholarship notwithstanding - overlook the fact that conservatives spend more time praising Smith than they do actually reading him, which becomes obvious to any literate person who bothers to trek through Smith's massive tome "The Wealth of Nations." Granted, I'm a fanatic but this is interesting stuff. I've discovered that contemporary conservatives leave out central aspects of Smith's argument for a genuine free-market in order to justify their fetish with our really existing "free-market" economy - a welfare state for the rich and "market discipline" for everyone else. Our economy is dominated by multi-national corporations, which are anti-democratic institutions with rigid top-down management, centralized bureaucratic authority and budgets larger than the GDP of most nations on the planet - a tyranny Smith would surely compare to the despotism of "Big Government." You would think intellectual integrity would be of utmost importance for any thinker - right-wing or leftist. But evidently, modern conservatives - the self-proclaimed guardians of American "values" - only care about honesty when it comes to "grave" matters like the Clinton-Lewinsky affair but could care less about the whole-truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth when it comes to trivial things like the foundation upon which our entire economy is built. These are serious charges. But the sin's of omission committed by the heirs of Smith's legacy are even more serious. Check out the following offering from the "liberal" media. Commenting on the historical origins of "the New World Order," Newsday columnist James Pinkerton wrote last week: "The first attempt to define a New Order came in 1776. In that year, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith wrote 'An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.' Together, the two works made the case for limited government and laissez-faire capitalism." Pinkerton continues: "It was not until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 that Marxism was tried out" - an oversimplification that completely ignores the ideas of Marx's intellectual rivals (i.e. Bakunin and Kropotkin). "...And so capitalism triumphed over communism." Then Pinkerton goes on to argue that "non-market organizations such as the U.N. flourish because they help preserve stability. And even archcapitalists saw the utility of planet-spanning entities, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. "Yet economic integration of the planet created more than just a market of 6 billion people; it has also created a new collective consciousness. World public opinion is at the heart of the emerging New Order." Indeed. Unfortunately, "world public opinion" is being shaped by a corporate media that fails to critically examine the operating principles of these "planet-spanning entities" or the politicians and economists who butcher Smith's thesis in the name of freedom and democracy. Everyone who has taken Econ 101 has read Smith's famous passage where he talks about the beauty of the division of labor in the pin factory. But what about Smith's observation that "the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments." Therefore, he wrote, "the man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding...and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to beBut in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes pains to prevent it (emphasis mine)." And this is why Alexis de Tocqueville, another conservative favorite, asked rhetorically: What "can be expected of a man who has spent 20 years of his life making heads for pins?...The art advances, the artisan recedes." And we haven't even touched on the fact that Smith's argument for "perfect freedom," he insisted, rests on the establishment of equality of condition! So it matters little how "rational" the work of F.A. Hayek and other "free-market" cheerleaders appear. If the foundation is weak, the whole edifice is shaky. But
[CTRL] Is This What Really Happened at Waco?
-Caveat Lector- [APFN - FROM THE FILES] DATED 09/19/93 COPY OF DOCUMENT WITH UNKNOWN SOURCE POSTMARKED AUSTIN TEXAS, JULY 9, 1993 REGION FIVE REPORT. VOL #5 ISUE #5 PAGE 8 INTEL PAGE ABOUT APRIL 19TH... On April 19th, 1993 eighty Branch Davidians lives were systematically eliminated to preclude the investigation of mistakes, bumbling, gross negligence, stupidity, and the intent of the BATF attack. Here is basically how things went down early that morning: 12 MIDNIGHT) Authorized from Washington to terminate the situation received final authorization, Janet Reno approves the action to be Taken. 0330 HOURS) Two HART penetration teams enter the compound main building upon determining activity within the site is at a minimum, listening Devices planted during previous penetrations provide this data. [APFN: LISTENING DEVICES INSIDE MILK CARTONS] 0400 HOURS) the HART units have located all the occupants and eliminate No less than four BD sentries including one in the tower, via silenced 9mm weapons (9mm 147 grain subsonic bullets were used) all were clean Head shots as trained. 0500 HOURS) Incendiary DEVICES ARE PLANTED IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS, ALL TIMED TO IGNITE AT 1150 HOURS. 0600 to 0630 HOURS) The engineering vehicles start their destruction of the compound. The BD's panic their sentries had not alerted them (they were dead), upon locating the dead sentries, the five BD's encounter on HART unit, a small shoot ensures with two BD's killed. This not being planned the HART team withdraws, as the BD's retreat to the center of the building. This was originally thought to be BD's firing on the engineering vehicles, such was not the case. As David Koresh attempts to consolidate and regain control of the situation, the remaining HART unit kills him with a clean shot to the forehead... slightly to the right of the center line. The BD's are essentially leaderless from this point with the few remaining "mighty men" trying to coordinate some resistance. 0700 HOURS) The effects of the gas are taking their toll, messages are waved on banners from windows in the tower to re-establish the telephone line. Two of those raising that banner are shot, their bodies found later around the tower rubble. The BD's unable to maintain control the situation withdraw to the center of the building, knowing, the doomed they start to pray for guidance, 0800 HOURS) No results from the CS2 teargas seem to be evident, the FBI order the engineering vehicles to flood the compound further and with additional force to deeper building penetration. The results gain deeper penetration but in doing so they flood the building with propellant used to push the CS2 gas. The propellant is propaine, realizing this, order are given to remove the ends of the building to disperse the propane. The remaining HART penetration has been trapped between the BD's and the fallen derbies the might explode and surely the HART unit. 0900-1000 HOURS) The propane has been cleared to some extant, additional CS-2 teargas is ordered in. Again being unfamiliar with the driver system of the gas, propane is reintroduced for a second time. However winds are now up to 25 MPH allowing for it to disperse or collect in dead air pockets though out the building. 1100 HOURS) The BD's are now succumbing to the gas, the children are showing signs of distress and being chemically burned.. The Israeli gas mask they have are falling, their filters clogged and unable to filter additional gas. No one has thought to distribute extra filters. They are confused, nauseated, burring from the Teargas, disoriented. Still pray for guidance, their leaders are dead. 1130 HOURS) The FBI realizing their penetration team has run out of time, the can not get to the children, the team can't get to the incendiary devices to put them off. The FBI orders the engineer vehicles to tear a hold in the area of the penetration team the response is too late. 1143-1150 HOURS) As the engineers vehicle attempts to extract the HART team, several of the team members attempt to disarm of the closer incendiary devices however it goes off prematurely, this is observed and reported to an FBI observation teams. The HART team barely manages to escape, as the other devices go off. 1200 HOURS) The fire is well established in several areas, the propane propellant accelerates the process, trapping the BD's with rivers of flaming propane gas near the communications room as they attempt a futile effort to reestablish a phone link. The CS2 gas reaches flash point in some areas and spontaneously ignites, this in () chain reacts with the Kerosene an Coleman fuel stored throughout the building. 1230 HOURS) trapped confused as a few members succumb to the smoke, the remaining BD's press their weapons to their heads and pull the trigger rather that burn to death. 1300 HOURS) Helicopters are orders to "seed the site," original evidence will be
[CTRL] Jack Thompson-Wake-up Danforth! Remove Reno
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John B. Thompson, Attorney
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October 10, 1999
Senator John C. Danforth
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URGENT!
Re: Cover-Up by the Justice Department of Waco Assault Planning
Dear Senator Danforth:
As Matt Drudge said awhile back on the Fox News Channel: "Will somebody
wake up Danforth?" He said it while I was sitting in the Green Room at Fox
News in Manhattan.
Because of the exquisite journalism of the Dallas Morning News's Lee
Hancock we now know that Web Hubbell appears to have been lying in his
testimony that the White House did not know about any plans to end the Waco
siege with an assault on the compound (see Hancock's article today).
The one person uniquely positioned to have the authority and the power
to
have discovered Hubbell's lie, as well as what else we know about the
unraveling cover-up, is the Attorney General of the United States.
I have previously told you, Senator, that I have corroborated evidence
that Reno has in the past been blackmailed and that both the FBI and the
President enjoyed a blackmail position over the Attorney General by virtue
of
information I and others gave Lanny Davis and the FBI before she was even
confirmed as A.G. This extortion option has given Reno a powerful
disincentive to get to the bottom of what happened at Waco because she has
known that both the FBI and the President could destroy her if she tried.
Senator, you have ignored me to date, save the letter I received on
September 17 from your Chief of Staff Thomas A. Schweich. Let me make this
more personal than I have to date: If harm comes to me because of your
nonfeasance in this regard-allowing me to hang out here with this crucial
information--then the resultant harm to my seven-year-old boy is on your
head. Subpoena me, Senator. Wake up.
Jack Thompson
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Don't hold your breath, Mr. Thompson. The principle of moral and legal
compromise (to the point of holding blackmail cards) carries throughout
the political spectrum. Senator Danforth's career is studded with dubious
business dealings. He may be as much under the thumb as our "shaky"
Attorney General.
You've always deserved the audience you've sought. That you didn't
get it, either in the Reno Confirmation Hearings or now, is express betrayal
by GOP membership more than anyone else. What kind of "bargaining chip"
was made out of Reno, and now the "treatment" that will be given by this
investigation, is all the pathetic morally bankrupt political structure will
yield. But you have not gone unheard. And, at least you're not in a lonely
bunker waiting for cosmetic removal from the eyes of a brain filtered
populace.
One thing remaining, and only one: the precious few with enough moral
determination to keep voicing the issue...in the face of being branded both
politically incorrect and unfashionable. Men (and women) such as yourself.
If it is in our collective means to help your present condition, I would hope
we would all gladly and quickly respond. But, I fear, we are not to have
a season of justice soon, but another of discontent. JCH
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[CTRL] OEN 10/14/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Today's Lesson from Pan by Knut Hamsun We got into the boat, she sat beside me on the same thwart and touched me with her knee. I looked at her, and she looked at me for a moment in return. I felt better when she touched me with her knee. I began to feel recompensed for that bitter day and to regain my good spirits, when she suddenly changed her position, turned her back on me and began talking to the Doctor, who was sitting at the tiller. For a full quarter of an hour I simply did not exist for her. Then I did something I regret and have not yet forgotten. Her shoe slipped off; I seized it and hurled it far out over the water--whether from joy at her nearness or from some urge to assert myself and remind her of my existence, I do not know. It all happened so quickly; I did not think, I just acted on impulse. I was as if paralyzed by what I had done; but what good was that? It was done. - Waco Davidian Compound Ringed by FBI Cameras But, oops, we lost all the tape. The Branch Davidian compound was ringed with FBI closed-circuit cameras and secret government sensing devices during the entire 1993 standoff, and the cameras were used throughout April 19, the day federal agents launched a tank and tear-gas assault, government documents show. But despite written statements from FBI agents and technicians that recordings were made, no videotape from the surveillance cameras has ever been made public by the federal government. Critics of the government's actions in the standoff say their efforts to obtain such videos have been blocked for years by the FBI and the Department of Justice. Congressional investigators who recently began re-examining investigations of the standoff said Wednesday that they cannot say what Congress has been told about the use of closed-circuit cameras at the compound because the matter involves government secrets. "Until that information is declassified, we cannot discuss it," said Mark Corallo, spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee. An FBI spokesman said he would need to look into the matter further before commenting. A Justice Department spokesman did not return calls Wednesday night. Lawyers for surviving sect members who have filed a massive wrongful-death lawsuit against the federal government say they are outraged because they have been told repeatedly by government lawyers that the only FBI cameras in use on April 19 were infrared cameras deployed in airplanes high above the sect's compound. "We have asked for every possible form of recording known to man that could have been utilized at Mount Carmel," said the lead lawyer for the group, Michael Caddell of Houston. "We have been told that the only thing that exists are the [infrared] tapes and the surveillance tapes from FBI bugs inside the compound." Written statements But formal written statements, known as FBI 302s, obtained by The Dallas Morning News show that at least five FBI agents were sent to the compound near Waco to maintain closed-circuit cameras. "CCTV [closed-circuit TV] monitoring sites . . . were all around the compound," one FBI technical expert stated in a June 1993 interview detailed in a three-page FBI 302. "This enabled observers to see everything that was going on at the compound without showing themselves." One agent reported watching from the closed-circuit TV system as FBI tanks began gassing the compound on April 19, the documents state. A supervisor from the FBI's Quantico, Va., training academy said that the FBI's cameras were also running as the compound caught fire with sect leader David Koresh and more than 80 followers inside, according to a second FBI 302. The supervisor's June 1993 statement said that recordings were routinely made from the closed-circuit cameras that ringed the compound to help document FBI actions during the 51-day standoff. Mr. Caddell said he believes that FBI officials may have withheld information about the cameras because of the images that they captured on April 19. He noted that references to the closed-circuit television cameras were blacked out on the formal statements or FBI 302s that the Justice Department has so far disclosed in the civil wrongful-death lawsuit. Two retired Defense Department experts hired by Mr. Caddell's law firm and a third expert retained by congressional investigators have said that the FBI's infrared airborne video cameras recorded thermal flashes from the compound and from government positions on April 19 that could only have come from gunfire. FBI officials have insisted that FBI agents did not fire a single shot that day or at any other time during the 51-day siege. The compound fire erupted six hours into the FBI's tank and tear-gas assault, and government investigators ruled that it was deliberately set by the Branch Davidians. Act of nature? Government officials have said the
[CTRL] OKC One Stop Shop
-Caveat Lector- Great overview of the duplicity and cover-up in the OKC bombing incident. Gavin. A HREF="http://www.thewinds.org/arc_features/government/okc10-97.html"WINDS - Oklahoma City Bombing Evidence Cover-up/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- Condolences Unless family requested immediate cremation, I'd say that this is evidence of cover-up. Who gave them PERMISSION? "Too much damage to repair" sounds like pretty much a crock, also. Before surgery, they're SUPPOSED to have done various tests, and have a pretty good indication of success. Sounds like your friend traded in a few years (or more) of life in favor of trusting the medical industry, while they all made bucks off the insurance... who'll no doubt be paying the doctor who finally killed her... ghouls... A very sorry business Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- From: Trudy Paul Schuett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:47 AM To: NCF list Subject: no idea Guess I won't be going to PHX after all...My buddy Doris, who was scheduled for triple bypass and cartoid artery surgery this AM,croaked on the table. The word I'm getting from her neighbor and purveyor of all news from PHX is: 'there was too much damage to repair; she wouldn't have lived more than six months anyway.' Her body was cremated within hours of death; I thought this was odd, but considering the distance from home(150 miles) maybe OK. Our mutual friend Sandy, the cardiac nurse says this is at the very least pretty damn screwy. Doris was fine, if not quite comfortable until her 65th b-day, when she saw an osteopath who sent her on a merry-go-round of tests. She had a hip problem; she coudln't walk well or long. In addition to prescribing arch supports,this guy discovered a blocked cartoid artery, and then it was on to the myriad of other dudes, each with their own speciality who discovered yet another thing wrong. (As a retired federal employee 10yrs ago, she already had good insurance long before Medicare) she had no apparent symptoms of heart dysfunction. The really weird thing is that she started out with no faith in allopathic medicine. She'd become a level 1 Reiki practitioner, and had actually cured some people. She was much better than I am. IMHO She was looking into herbs and other therapies for her own condition, as diagnosed by the MDs. Sandy had urged her to get other opinons when surgery started to be discussed. Doris never did it, for reasons we can't yet determine. The only thing we (Sandy and I) can determine is maybe MDs are such good salesmen you can't tell them no. We'll probably never know. All we know for certain at this moment is that our buddy walked into a doc's office on 8/15, and now she's dead. There's no way of discovering the cause. I started an e-mail to Tangerine on this one--maybe in the morning I'll finish it. T DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FW: LFAS feedbacks and more information on the subject - urgent deadline to meet!
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- From: jean hudon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:14 AM To: Jean Hudon Subject: LFAS feedbacks and more information on the subject - urgent deadline to meet! Hello again everyone Here is the LFAS material mentioned in my other email tonight. If you do not have time right now to delve on this issue, please put this information aside as you might want to consider what you could be able to do to assist in preventing the US Navy to go ahead with their dangerous plans. I received some more comments on this issue following my recent post on it. You'll find them first. And then you'll find a number of eye-opening and very informative emails I received from Cheryl A. Magill who is coordinating efforts right now to secure as large a participation as possible in the fight to stop the Low Frequencies Sonar tests conducted and the outright deployment of this dangerous technology. If enough of us take a stand, perhaps they will listen. The deadline for comments on the "Draft Overseas Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Statement for Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) SONAR" is October 28, 1999. So we don't have much time left to act... Jean Hudon Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000 P.S. See details below as to how you may send your comments... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 Subject: Recent Green Files post on LFAS From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jean (and related cc:'s), THANK YOU for your recent message about the whole LFAS thing, it was very powerful and frankly has me more than a little agitated (the facts, not the message). I'm particularly concerned that this huge message doesn't contain the basic information on how to request the EIS itself, comment directly on it, or get to whatever the Navy has publicly released about all this. Any clues about how to find that kind of info? As the EPA found out when they went into public comment on organic gardening, "we" can raise a serious ruckus in almost no time flat, and basically grind the EIS-comment process on things like this to a halt, make them turn around and pay attention. Writing our representatives and prez candidates is not pointless, but I think the best way, if there's time, is to get involved directly in the EIS process, and this information should be in this kind of communication OR FOLLOW IT IN A TIMELY MANNER. My single most coveted item would be an OFFICIAL NAVY E-ADDRESS where comments can be sent NOW. If there is such a thing, I hope we can arrange it so EVERYBODY who got this message from you and the cc:'s can get it pronto! I'm going to go looking on the WWW at the locations suggested, after dark. Right now I gotta go weed the creeping charlie out of the garlic patch. Let's STOP this madness! love, deep deep love, Mark Mark Smith 919 929 1135 h 919 715 7639 w 3108 Five Forks, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "Lucia Gillot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: navy sonar Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 Dear Jean, Thank you again for all your work. It just brings me to tears at the blind ignorance of people inhabiting this planet. My emotions seem to be so near to the surface these days. I feel like I'm vibrating and floating, it's really weird. My friend suggested the navy sonar problem to Bill Maher, but apparently the topics for the show are already chosen weeks ahead; he is however taking all the details along and is going to see what he can do about slipping it in. (I totally agree with what you said about the show. It really saddens me too that when people arise to the grandures of having their own programmes that they skirt around the edges of safetydom. Pathetic reallyMaybe we should contact Oprah??!). If Bill can't get it on tonight's show, he'll try him for another night. Tonight's the night for me though. The sooner the better. My friend will also write an article in his high powered men's magazine, but that's not out for another 3 weeks or a month. My question is...WHY are the navy doing this??? I'm slammed busy right now, but let me know if there's anything I can do. I may need you to send me all the information or tell me where to get all access. I LOVE the idea about deafening the White House! I'll keep you posted. Love, Lucia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 From: "Cheryl A. Magill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Report on Reporters = Thank you for your numerous attempts Dear Jean and Lucia, and All: I appreciated Lucia's attempt to gain media involvement on the topic of LFA Sonar. The media... the media... the media. What have they done or failed to do?
[CTRL] The philosophy of the lie
-Caveat Lector- The Philosophy of the Lie Edward Britton I am fortunate in that I have more than a healthy suspicion when it comes to pronouncements of absolute truth. No one on this earth makes me more nervous than the individual who expects me to blindly accept, as truth, his or her particular philosophy as the final analysis of and summary statement on any aspect of existence. I am made even more nervous when such an individual asks me to accept a philosophy which, to support itself, negates any one or any part of an aspect of reality which I know to exist. Even though the focus of my current suspicions rests primarily with the philosophy of objectivism--the core tenets of which serve as the motivating and legitimizing agent behind ninety per cent of rightist thought--this suspicion is by no means limited to objectivism. I would hold as suspect any philosophy which demanded that I believe in half-truths or downright lies. Consider the premise upon which all objectivist reasoning is built; that nothing unreal exists; that A always equals A. Automatically, when one makes such a statement, one has taken the responsibility upon him or herself to know what reality is and is not. In the attempt to satisfy that responsibility, an objectivist will assure you that there is no such thing as a first cause of creation--in any form, whether initiated by a deity or evolution--because such a cause cannot be perceived, cannot be observed and cannot be quantified. Any such phenomenon as creation, therefore, does not exist or is irrelevant. Forgetting for the moment why it is necessary for such partisans to subscribe to this denial, there are more than enough examples to prove the elemental fallacy of their argument. Electricity, for example, and before the advent of devices necessary to measure it were available, could not be perceived, observed or quantified in any form other than lightening or static discharge. Even this presupposes that humanity somehow "knew" that lightening or discharge were representations of electricity. Therefore, according to the objectivist, electricity cannot exist and, hence, belief in the existence of same would be considered mysticism. The same holds true for the existence of such phenomena/realities as subatomic matter and gravitational influences on celestial orbits--not to mention a spherical earth. Indeed, were the technological development of the human race left in the capable hands of the objectivist, the sum of our achievement would still be limited only to what we could have done with our five senses--which would, by philosophical necessity, have to be blinded by the negation of any pertinent yet non-observable phenomena. The modern political equivalent of the objectivist, the conservative, thus would have us believe in, or have "faith" in, the noblest and consequent absolutes of individualism and of the fallacy that all that is wrought of an individual comes from the solitary effort of that individual. The objectivist touts the "self-made" man or woman as the pinnacle of human achievement and existence. No wonder he or she has to deny the existence or reality of a creator other than him or herself. To accept the possibility of any opposing reality, even if that reality were in the form of natural evolution, would require the subscriber to such a philosophy to realize that he or she was DEPENDENT upon the creative potential of a being other than him/herself. Such believers would discover that they, no matter how much they believed they had accomplished through their stoic efforts, were still leeching, nay MOOCHING off of someone or something else's creation. The objectivist would have to accept the fact that she or he, just like every other form of life that we are aware of, would be no more than a "parasitic welfare recipient." Knowing this in the core of the objectivist consciousness is, I suspect, why he or she tries so hard to live by the personal, social and political equivalent of a lie. In the objectivist's denial of a reality s/he says--but cannot prove--does not exist, he or she begins to fashion a complex system of deception to, ironically, guard against facing the very reality to which he or she so strongly adheres. The objectivist realizes that his or hers is a system of deception which leads down the same path of mysticism (*belief* in the existence of any phenomena which cannot be immediately perceived, observed or quantified) that he or she so vehemently abhors. As one may imagine, all manner of philosophical chaos is the result. Consider the crowning glory of perhaps the most notable objectivist, Ayn Rand, in her work Atlas Shrugged. In the telling of an otherwise marvelous story--which has become, more or less, the Bible of conservative thought--Rand attempts to render credence to her objectivist philosophy by means of the dishonest and cowardly practice of crippling her opponent's arguments in anything resembling rational, literary dialogue. Her cause
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
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# Prancing Priest's 'Jesus Twist' Tops Charts. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A
dancing priest's 2nd CD of aerobics music has shot to the top of Brazil's
pop charts with its hit song "Vira de Jesus" ("Jesus Twist"), his record
company says. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991012/11/odd-priest
# Singing Priests Draw Thousands To Mass. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Brazil's
revitalized Roman Catholic Church attracted more than 100,000 people to a
splashy service in Maracana soccer stadium where nine rock-star singing
priests led a raucous homage to the country's patron saint. Next: anti-
Satan cha-cha: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/11/odd-religion
: Who are your favorite singing/dancing priests/nuns? Are they fast, slow,
indeterminate, au courant, indecipherable, mechanistic, mind-controlling??
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# SOUTH CAROLINA TO DECIDE WHETHER TO ALLOW 'HARRY POTTER' BOOKS IN CLASS.
Some adults here wish Harry Potter would just - poof! - disappear. Parents
worried about the influence of the wildly popular Harry Potter books by
J.K.Rowling have persuaded the South Carolina Board of Education to review
whether the books should be allowed in the classroom. "The books have a
serious tone of death, hate, lack of respect and sheer evil" - State board
to review books: http://cnn.com/books/news/9910/13/potter.protest.ap/
: Are childrens' books effective mindcontrol tools? Have you promoted lack
of respect lately? Do Reptoids/Republicans control S.Carolina? Should they?
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Mirror: http://www.sayahda.com/Article.html
: Have you channeled or been channeled lately? Anything important said? Wha?
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# Gas Powered Computers Closer To Reality. LONDON (Reuters) A super-fast,
minuscule molecular computer driven by gases may be a step closer to
reality thanks to research by a Berlin-based chemist. Fart in a jar:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/19/science-science-computers
# Staggering Implications: US Scientists Use Computer To Watch What Cat
Brain Sees: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/catbrain.htm
# Looking Through Cats' Eyes - Pictures:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_471000/471786.stm
: Do you use gas-powered computers to look through cats' eyes? Should you?
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# Theologian okays stock deals for Catholics. MILAN (Reuters) Catholics can
invest in the stock market safe in the knowledge that they are acting in
the common good so long as their only aim is an "honest profit," Italy's
main Catholic rag sez. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/11/odd-market
# NY's Giant Squid Unveiled But Its Living Peers Stay Hidden. NEW YORK -
After sitting more than a year in a metal storage tank, a dead, floppy,
26-foot 250-pound giant squid is finally ready for public eyes at New York
City's Natural History Museum. http://foxnews.com/scitech/101299/squid.sml
: Have you mentally communicated with any 8-brain-lobed telepathic molluscs
lately? Would you rather be mind-controlled by Catholic investors, CIA/NSA
operatives, telepathic squids, Reptilioid/Republican minions, me? Can giant
squids invest in stock markets for moral purposes? Can Catholics? Can you?
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Gong Beliefs: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=99834
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[CTRL] Fwd: NCPA Policy Digest 10-14-99
In a message dated 10/14/99 10:26:57 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: NCPA Policy Digest 10-14-99 Date: 10/14/99 10:26:57 AM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John C. Goodman) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center For Policy Analysis DAILY POLICY DIGEST Thursday, October 14, 1999 PointCast can automatically load NCPA's Policy Digest summaries on your desktop for easy reading. For information go to http://www.ncpa.org/pointcast.html IN TODAY'S DIGEST o A SEVENFOLD INCREASE IN LAND PRICES and an apartment glut are some of the effects of "Smart Growth" policies in Portland, OreNCPA o CRITICAL INDUSTRIES HAVE NOT CERTIFIED THEIR Y2K COMPLIANCE, says former Gov. Pete Du PontNCPA/WASHINGTON TIMES o NOBEL ECONOMIST ROBERT A. MUNDELL is a defender of the gold standard and supply-side tax cuts, say observersWALL STREET JOURNAL o THE LONDON UNDERGROUND MAY BE PRIVATIZED despite the Paddington station wreck, say observersWALL STREET JOURNAL o THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS AN AGE DISCRIMINATION CASE brought by state employees, which raises issues of federalismNEW YORK TIMES o FASTEST GROWING AREAS AND INDUSTRIES HAVE LOWEST UNION MEMBERSHIP rate, according to an AFL-CIO studyNEW YORK TIMES o WHITES-ONLY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CHALLENGED, as black student claims his 14th Amendment rights are violatedCHICAGO TRIBUNE IN TODAY'S NEWS PORTLAND: SMART GROWTH'S BAD EXAMPLE Portland, Ore., is pioneering Smart Growth (also known as the New Urbanism), the latest fad in urban planning. Smart Growth promises such things as less congestion, more affordable housing and cleaner air, says economist Randal O'Toole. But in Portland, Smart Growth policies are delivering rapidly increasing congestion, higher housing prices and more pollution. Portland's regional government, called Metro, anticipates area population will increase 75 percent by 2040. Yet it plans to increase highway capacity no more than 13 percent while it adds 90 miles of rail transit lines to the 30 miles already built. o In 1990, 92 percent of all the trips taken in the Portland area were by auto, while 3 percent were by transit and the rest were by walking or bicycling (see figure http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba305/ba305fig1.gif ). o Metro officials project that even with planned changes, by 2040 Portlanders will still drive for 88 percent of their trips and use transit for just 6 percent. o And the number of miles of congested roads will more than triple -- partly due to "traffic calming" measures to discourage driving, such as narrowing and reducing the number of traffic lanes, including eliminating turn lanes on major streets. Metro plans to increase population density by two-thirds; for example, some neighborhoods of single-family homes have been rezoned for multi-family housing. There is now a huge surplus in apartment and multi-family housing and a major shortage of single-family homes. Since 1996, Portland has ranked among the five least affordable U.S. housing markets and land prices have increased sevenfold. Metro also admits that its plan will increase smog by 10 percent, which is consistent with Environmental Protection Agency data showing that the worst air pollution is found in the densest cities and urban areas. Source: Randal O'Toole, "Portland: Smart Growth's Bad Example," Brief Analysis No. 305, October 14, 1999, National Center for Policy Analysis, 12655 N. Central Expy., Suite 720, Dallas, Texas 75243, (972) 386-6272. For text http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba305/ba305.html For more on Land Use Controls http://www.ncpa.org/pd/state/state4.html BEWARE COMPLACENCY ON Y2K COMPLIANCE January 1, 2000, is only two-and-one-half months away and no one knows for sure whether their lights will stay on when that date rolls around. However, recently there was a long list of electricity suppliers who had not yet announced that they are Y2K compliant. Moreover, a long list of companies in the chemical industry, water suppliers and nuclear power plants that operate on computers had yet to affirm that they are 100 percent ready for the new millennium, according to Y2K expert Dick Lefkon. o The U.S. electric power industry is comprised of approximately 3,200 different electric utilities and some big names -- including Baltimore GE, Detroit Edison, Florida Power, Indianapolis PL, Minnesota Power and Wisconsin PL -- had yet to claim they are fully ready for the 21st Century. o The chemical industry is composed of approximately 69,000 operations -- but the government has Y2K data on fewer than
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Danite Irish]
-Caveat Lector- This was an extremely interesting post that addresses one of the genuine mysteries of European folklore and place-lore: namely, the wide distribution of names such as Dan, Don, Danu, Diana, Tana, Danaan, Danaus, Danuvius/Danube, and the like. Indo-European linguists derive such river names as "Don" (Ukraine) and "Danube" (Central/Eastern Europe) from a Pro-Indo-European (PIE) root *dôn, "?flowing water". Clearly, however, the Don-names were more widely spread than the Indo-European zone, as this post points out. The parallel occurence of Bel/Baal/Belenos/Belili, etc., suggests the existence of a cult of (tentatively) "Tana" and "Bel", worshipped across a wide geographic range from Mesopotamia to Ireland and the Baltic coast, probably no later than the sixth or seventh millennium B.C.E. Also, in Irish mythology, the "Sons of Mil" or Milesians were supposed to have come to Eire from Spain; and they had earlier come to Spain from Asia Minor via North Africa. Some authorities identified them with a party of Trojans who left Troy at the same time as Aeneas but in a different direction. This might be considered typical Celtic hyperbole, except for the speculative connection 'Mil'=Latin 'miles', "soldier"; thus it becomes possible to suggest that the "Sons of Mil" perhaps included Roman auxiliaries or treaty troops, originally from Asia Minor (Galatia?). (See Alwyn and Brinley Rees, *Celtic Heritage*, for informed speculation on this and related matters.) One minor point, however: Old Irish 'dun' means "stockaded village" or "fort", as in Dun Laoghaire, "Dunleary". It *is not* cognate to anything in Hebrew. -Original Message- From: Nicola Molloy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] [Fwd: Danite Irish] -Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Danite Irish Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:51:32 +0200 From: yair davidi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim Crusades
-Caveat Lector- The prohibition in sharia (Islamic law) on usury, i.e. charging interest to believers, would be a very large draw to disillusioned European (and American) Christians if it were to be used as a drawing card... -Original Message- From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 4:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim "Crusades" -Caveat Lector- Bishop: Islam Expanding Conquests VATICAN CITY (AP) - Islam is driving into predominantly Christian countries in a new campaign of expansion and conquest, a bishop at a Vatican synod claimed Wednesday in a warning to his European colleagues. Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, archbishop of Izmir in Turkey, spoke at a synod of European bishops on what he said was Islam's growing challenge to Christianity, even on its home ground. ``The 'domination' has already started with petrodollars, used not to create jobs in poor countries in North Africa and the Middle East, but to build mosques and cultural centers in Christian countries ... including Rome, center of Christianity,'' Bernardini declared. snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991014b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No telepathic molluscs were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ StickDeath: http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Teleology, the idea of purpose in nature, has been on the back foot since the 17th century. But it's not dead yet, even in physics. http://www.linguafranca.com/9910/hypo.html : Does nature have a purpose? Do you? How many deities shape you and your nature? Do they have different purposes? Does this explain chaos? How? # The speed of light may be variable, rather than constant: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=18 # Questioning current notion of "time" as a framework for the universe: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=28 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Telecom Future: Flying Wings And Unmanned Planes. EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - It creeps across the bright desert sky as quiet as a ceiling fan. It carries no fuel, no pilot and is wider than a jumbo jet's wingspan. In fact, that's all the Helios is a giant wing. Bzz-bzz-bzz: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/20/science-science-planes : How many unmanned craft do you want orbiting overhead, beaming signals at you? How many are there already? Does your implant receive signals clearly? # MagLev (magnetic levitation) orbital launch systems are becoming more a reality now that NASA has built an experimental launch track: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=23 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Solar Cycle Update. Updated predictions from NASA scientists put the solar maximum in mid-2000. As activity on the Sun increases toward this broad maximum, we can expect more auroral displays, radio disruptions power fluctuations. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast14oct99_1.htm : Have solar flares interrupted your thoughts lately? Have your thoughts had any effects on solar flares lately? Do flares disrupt your remote-viewing? # Talk of discovery of a 10th (and perhaps 11th) planet orbiting the sun. http://newsreality.com/showbindings/?section=science.astronomyid=4068 http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/newsstory2.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A Revolution in Brain Evolution? New research shows that monkeys regener- ate and repair brain cells in the cerebral cortex. If humans do too, a startling new view of the brain is possible: that our minds are shaped by our experience. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31889,00.html : Has your cerebral anatomy undergone radical transformations? Do you try to reshape your brain? Do you use drugs, knives, films, implants, sex, cigars? # The inner idiot savant: you too could learn a dozen languages or play the complete works of Bach, if only you'd stop trying to be so clever: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991009/tuneinturn.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Irish Coffees Better Than Drugs For Stroke? HOUSTON (Reuters) A slug of alcohol followed by a quick cup of coffee may work just as well to limit stroke damage as some of the drugs now available in emergency rooms. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/16/science-health-stroke : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Do Mexican Coffees work just as well? Have you ever fed Irish Coffee to a Reptoid/Republican? Do they gag?? @ See rural UK as a domestic Transylvania, where normality can't survive an uneasy night or an innocuous dinner party www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n20/wood2120.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Immortality On Ice. NEW YORK - Kennita Watson likes to think about what she'll be doing in a few hundred years. "Some things that come to mind are traveling to the stars; terraforming an asteroid; learning dozens, then hundreds, of languages; understanding general relativity; playing musical instruments that haven't been invented yet... I could go on and on." Cryonics to the rescue: http://foxnews.com/scitech/100899/cryonics.sml # Bionic Humans in Slow Motion. Researchers have made headway in tissue engineering, but a real-life Jamie Summers is still years away. Surgeons convene to discuss growing cells organs outside of the body. Resistance is futile: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31893,00.html : What's your favorite tissue work? Would you rather be cryogenically stored revived, exobiologically regenerated, saturated in preservatives, deified? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Say Attack On GM Food Safety Is Flawed. LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists reacted angrily to a commentary in a leading science magazine slamming the criterion used to assess the safety of genetically modified foods. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/17/science-science-gm Source: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/newsstory3.html : Have you modified any genes lately? Are
[CTRL] Buchanan sets date to leave GOP
-Caveat Lector- Buchanan sets date to leave GOP Officials: Formal bid for Reform nomination will come Oct. 25 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan is preparing to bolt his party and begin a quest for the Reform Party nomination Oct. 25, officials close to the conservative commentator said Wednesday. TWO OFFICIALS, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Buchanan was planning to announce his departure from the GOP in suburban Washington, New Hampshire and perhaps other key states. VIRTUALLY CERTAIN The officials cautioned that Buchanan could still reverse course and stay out of the increasingly fractious third-party bid. But they said he intends to bolt, and the departure was virtually certain. In the clearest signal yet of his intentions, Buchanans campaign mailed hundreds invitations to supporters Tuesday night inviting them to a major announcement Oct. 25 at a Falls Church, Va., hotel, the officials said. As many as 3,000 invitations also were being sent for a New Hampshire stop, they said. Hes almost too far down the pike to get out now, said one of the officials. However, spokeswoman Joanne Hansen said no final decision has been made. Lagging in GOP polls, Buchanan says he believes the partys nomination battle is rigged in favor of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who he says is too moderate. The Reform Party nominee would lay claim to almost $13 million in federal matching money. Party founder Ross Perot earned 19 percent of the vote in 1992 and 8 percent in 1996. COULD HELP DEMOCRATS Republicans fear that a third-party run by Buchanan would siphon conservative votes from their nominee. He won the New Hampshire primary in 1996 and put a scare into then-President George Bush in the 1992 primaries. Buchanan, however, would not be assured the nomination. A parade of celebrities and politicians are mentioned as potential candidates, including New York tycoon Donald Trump. Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker, actress Cybill Shepherd, actor Warren Beatty and Perot himself. A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll shows limited support for the third-party alternatives. Buchanan had the backing of 9 percent of those surveyed in a three-way matchup with Bush and Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic front-runner. Trump had 10 percent in a similar three-way matchup. The unfavorability ratings of Buchanan, Ventura and Trump have increased as speculation about their presidential bids drew more media attention. TRUMPS COMMITTEE Trump formed an exploratory committee last week, and says he would spend $30 million if he jumps in the race. Buchanan, who has had trouble raising money in the GOP race, could not match that total but has more political experience than Trump. He is said to be worried about Trumps financial resources. The contest is already heated. Trump consultant Roger Stone said Buchanan wants attention, not the White House. Pats avocation at this point is running for president. Its all he does, Stone said in a telephone interview. Trump will spend $30 million to get on the ballots in every state. I dont think Pat can do it. Trump himself has called Buchanans views prehistoric. Buchanan is a staunch, anti-abortion conservative who drew criticism for questioning whether Nazi Germany was a threat to America. Ventura, the partys highest ranking elected official, has ruled out a 2000 presidential campaign, though the speculation continues. He is urging Trump to seek the nomination, saying Buchanan is too conservative on social issues for the party. Buchanan is drawing support from the Perot wing of the party. CHOATE FOR BUCHANAN I say to Roger Stone, Bring your candidate on. Itll be another head on the wall, said Pat Choate, Perots 1996 running mate. I believe Pat is going to get in the race, win the nomination and, with any luck, the White House. Perot himself has not taken sides in the nomination fight and has not ruled out jumping in the fray himself. The officials close to Buchanan say his meetings with advisers are filled with strategic and thematic discussions about the third-party bid. His sister and top adviser, Bay Buchanan, is exploring party rules and is already seeking to plant Buchanan backers in state party leadership posts. Buchanan and his advisers are discussing language Buchanan would use to explain his departure, though he has not yet formally begun writing the speech. http://www.msnbc.com/news/322942.asp#BODY Bard We don't need a 3rd Party; we need a 2nd Party! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by
Re: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim Crusades
-Caveat Lector- Missions Fest in Vancouver is billed as North America's largest missionary meet. It is controlled by a narrow group of Protestants which even keeps out other Protestants or quasi-Protestant denominations which it regards as "cults" such as Christian Scientists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses. I have initiated a complaint/law suit against the Mfest Board for religious discrimination which is explicitly proscribed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms section of the Constitution. If I am successful (as I expect to be) then Roman Catholics AND Muslims can have exhibit booths at Mfest 2000 to tell us what a "Godly Nation" is like from their perspectives. So everyone can go on a crusade into "Deepest, Darkest Vancouver". FWP. See http://www.mfest.bc.ca -Original Message- From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:19 AM Subject: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim "Crusades" -Caveat Lector- Bishop: Islam Expanding Conquests VATICAN CITY (AP) - Islam is driving into predominantly Christian countries in a new campaign of expansion and conquest, a bishop at a Vatican synod claimed Wednesday in a warning to his European colleagues. Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, archbishop of Izmir in Turkey, spoke at a synod of European bishops on what he said was Islam's growing challenge to Christianity, even on its home ground. ``The 'domination' has already started with petrodollars, used not to create jobs in poor countries in North Africa and the Middle East, but to build mosques and cultural centers in Christian countries ... including Rome, center of Christianity,'' Bernardini declared. ``Who cannot see in this a clear program of expansion and reconquest?'' he asked. The dire tone of his warning contrasted with repeated overtures to the Islamic world by Pope John Paul II, whose comments on Islam frequently stress the values it shares with Christianity. The archbishop was one of several at the synod to express frustration in dealing with the Islamic world, however. Others in the weeklong session have spoken of the need for cooperation between Muslims and Christians. Bernardini suggested the church call a synod specifically on the theme of Islam in predominantly Christian countries. As a first, practical step, he said, Catholics must see to it that none of their churches are ceded to Muslims for practice of their faith. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991014c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No purpose for life was found during production of this bulletin. Bother. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DUMB LAWS R US: http://www.dumblaws.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Think The Internet Stinks? Try This! SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) If you think the Internet is in your face already, you haven't smelled anything yet. Smell-o-video: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-internet # Rudy vs The Elephant Dung: stock characters hurl abuse and feign hurt, secretly gleeful at the publicity. A well-staged scandal: http://nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991010mag-art-politics.html : Is your nose more offended by the Internet, politics, your cow orkers, me? Do alien implants cushion you from the worst scents? Do Reptilioids stink?? # COSMIC ANGST. The discovery of more solar systems in the universe just increases the likelihood that space is filled with assholes, morons and goons: http://www.annoyed.com/daryl-lease/cosmic-angst.htm : How many jerks can the universe abide? All of'em? Are deities jerks too? Is jerk-hood a survival characteristic? Did we evolve to be jerks? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes under fire and he's still a happy atheist. This apostle of godless morality is now leading a revolution on campus: http://www.linguafranca.com/9910/faith.html # What's striking about today's intellectuals, says Wendy Kaminer, is their utter failure to criticize, much less satirize, America's romance with God: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/277/living/An_avowed_agnostic_divines_the_ perils_of_piety+.shtml : Are you romantically involved with one or more deities? Do intellectuals mock you? Dare they? Do you mock them? Are you revolutionary? Are they? How? # Despite liberal orthodoxy, Harvard still harbors a flinty right wing: contentious, mordant, and politically incorrect on a cosmic scale. The swine! http://www.harvard-magazine.com/so99/conserv.ssi _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Improving the human race with genetics is a sensitive subject in Germany. Just raise the topic and you may hear shouts of "Fascist!" http://www.philosophynews.com/news/19991001_habermas_vs_sloterdijk.htm # Four Sisters Up For Adoption On Internet. LONDON (Reuters) Authorities in Britain are using a photograph on the Internet to offer four young sisters for adoption in a desperate attempt to bring them together under one roof. Bring on the clones: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-adoption # If Mozart piped into mother's womb causes baby to kick, what's the kid trying to say? Maybe, Turn off that racket! Let's have some quiet here! www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/280/metro/Discordant_note_little_heardP.shtml : Have you improved anyone lately? Did you use genetic modification, social engineering, personal manipulation, prenatal music, drugs, sex, surgery? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain wave: Suppose all that was thought to happen in your left lobe took place in your right instead? Would it make any difference? Would anyone notice? How? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/fodo2119.htm # Since the chance of an election being decided by a single vote is almost nil, why should any citizen bother to vote? Ask a rational choice theorist http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory102599.html : Is rationality overrated? Are your lobes scrambled? Do ET implants help? Do'ya make a difference? Do differences make you? Do you control the future? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Message from a Mouse. The very notion of a gene "for" something as complex as "intelligence" lapses into absurdity. A Gene for Intelligence? Pshaw!! http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,30590,00.html # RACING TO MAP OUR DNA: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17688,00.html # WHO OWNS OUR GENES? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17682,00.html : Are y'r genes smart? Do you own them? Do they own you? Is ownership passe? Do mice communicate meaningfully with you? Do you talk back? Do they listen? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Faith isn't omnipotent, writes John Horgan, nor is it always benign. Religion is a fine therapy, but also foments intolerance. And as for science... http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i07/07a07201.htm # Cobra Kills Top Snake Charmer. BANGKOK (Reuters) Thailand's top snake charmer was killed by one of his own cobras which turned on him during a show. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-snake : Do you have faith? Has faith killed you yet? Have you killed a believer lately? Did they resent it? Do you? Is faith the best therapy? Are you nutz? # Rabbis Excommunicate Assassin. JERUSALEM (Reuters) More than 50 Israeli rabbis signed a decree excommunicating
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Do Mexican Coffees work just as well? Have you ever fed Irish Coffee to a Reptoid/Republican? Do they gag?? A long, long time ago, I discovered Irish coffee (which is of course an *American* invention, like the Saint Patrick's Day parade)...and in short order became an alcoholic. Actually, I think I must've been an alcoholic for years; I used to go on a bender once a year, then stay dry the rest of the year. After I found the most glorious taste in all of God's green universe, the benders got closer and closer together, until one morning I woke up with absolutely no memory of the last twelve hours and, even worse, no idea where I had left my glasses... That was fifteen years ago, and I haven't had a drop since, if you don't count the brandy cherry I ate by accident at an office party in 1990. Now, at the time I discovered Irish coffee, I was still, alas, a registered Republican. Shortly thereafter I looked at my voter registration card, gagged, and promptly re-registered as a Democrat. After looking at the current crop of candidates from all parties, both major and minor, I am about to abandon the political spectrum and re-register as a Non-Euclidean. As the doctor told me when I asked him if I was crazy, "One of us is, my boy, one of us is..." === Robert F. Tatman Computer Help Desk Desktop LAN Services Systems Department Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215.854.2729 215.854.2788 The contents of this message represent the opinion ONLY of the writer, and may not be construed to indicate the endorsement of Knight-Ridder, Inc.; Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.; The Philadelphia Inquirer; or the Philadelphia Daily News. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Indonesian army recruits training in Vermont
-Caveat Lector- From: "John M. Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "John M. Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BG: Indonesian army recruits training in Vermont This story ran on page A01 of the Boston Globe on 10/04/99. Indonesian army recruits training in Vermont Students at private military school linked to 'most feared, most abusive' special force By Terry J. Allen, Globe Correspondent, 10/04/99 NORWICH, Vt. - Quietly tucked away in the hills of Vermont, Norwich University, the only private military college in the country, has continued to educate and train future members of the Indonesian army, even as President Clinton has effectively frozen all relations with that country's military in the wake of the violence in East Timor. According to Norwich records, 11 of the school's current crop of 13 Indonesian undergraduates list their billing address as the Jakarta headquarters of Kopassus, the Army's elite special forces. ''Kopassus played an especially brutal role in East Timor,'' Sidney Jones of Human Rights Watch said. ''They were unquestionably the most feared, most hated, and most abusive of all Indonesian units in East Timor.'' The US government blocked Indonesians from programs at federally funded military institutions such as West Point, citing human rights concerns. But Norwich, a private institution, has continued with its cooperative program, which brings in about $20,000 annually in tuition and fees for each student. According to Norwich spokesman Richard Greene, the Indonesian students in the two-year-old cooperative program were chosen and paid for by the Indonesian Embassy in Washington with funds wired ''by order of the military attache.'' The undergrads, ostensibly civilians, are obligated to serve 10 years in the Indonesian army after graduation. Thirteen of them are enrolled in Norwich's Army ROTC program, where they take the standard course that includes weapons training, intelligence gathering, field training, and tactics, as well as military ethics. ''The curriculum is dictated from US Army Cadet Command,'' said Captain Mike Lefebvre, who teaches ROTC at Norwich. ROTC instructors are active duty Army officers chosen by the Pentagon. ''The training of these foreign students [at Norwich] came about from an agreement made between university and the US Army,'' Lefebvre said. Ten graduate students, who returned to service in Indonesia in 1999 after completing master's degrees in military science and diplomacy, have served as active duty officers. The worst violence in East Timor erupted after the island voted for independence from Indonesia on Aug. 30. Pro-Jakarta militia backed by, and often part of, the Indonesian army killed hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians. Another 300,000 either fled the violence or were forcibly repopulated to various islands in the Indonesian archipelago. At least four of the Norwich graduate students served in East Timor around the time of the referendum. According to an August report from Norwich President Thomas W. Schneider, the four were ''in East Timor serving under the United Nations flag.'' The Indonesians, however, could not have been a part of a UN mission, according to the United Nations. ''There is no room for confusion,'' said Manuel de Almeida e Silva, deputy spokesman for secretary-general of the UN. Some Norwich faculty oppose the university program, including one member who quit in protest in late 1997. ''When I resigned my teaching position at Norwich, I believed they were profoundly misguided. I am very sorry my predictions were true,'' said James Chapados, referring to the service of the four Norwich graduates in East Timor. Schneider said he has no plans to end the program and thinks that it performs a valuable service. The curriculum, he said, includes a heavy dose of military ethics. ''We are not claiming that [Norwich graduates] will behave humanely when they go back, but what we do is talk about human rights, civil rights, and give them a new way of thinking,'' he said. ''We would take Communist students from Red China. What better way to teach them that their system is screwed up?'' The Indonesian students now at Norwich did not want to speak with the media, according to Greene. The Norwich-Indonesia program was set up after a visit to Jakarta by Norwich officials who met with Major General Zacky Anwar Makarim and General A.M. Hendropriyono. The generals, who have been implicated in serious human rights abuses by Human Rights Watch and have been members of Kopassus, visited the Norwich campus in fall and winter 1997. Zacky, as the general is more commonly known, had been head of BIA Indonesia's national intelligence body until January and spent a large part of his career in Kopassus, according to Jane's Intelligence Review, a British military journal. One of the country's most experienced covert operatives, he is generally believed to have helped set up and
[CTRL] How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements of the 1960s
-Caveat Lector- http://mediafilter.org/MFF/USDomCovOps1.html US Domestic Covert Operations From the Archive: WAR AT HOME (2/5) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Lee) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:20:26 GMT Organization: The Gloons of Tharf Newsgroups: alt.society.anarchy Anyone who doubts that the government is capable of using agents provocateurs to plant phony requests for bomb-making information in this newsgroup as a pretext for censoring the entire net (or that it is capable of much worse if that fails) should take a glance at the following articles. These posts also contain much that should be of interest to anyone thinking about joining or starting any kind of anarchist direct-action campaign or organization. Gary /** pn.publiceye: 23.5 **/ ** Written 6:49 pm Jan 24, 1991 by nlgclc in cdp:pn.publiceye ** How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements of the 1960s Since COINTELPRO was used mainly against the progressive movements of the 1960s, its impact can be grasped only in the context of the momentous social upheaval which shook the country during those years. All across the United States, Black communities came alive with renewed political struggle. Most major cities experienced sustained, disciplined Black protest and massive ghetto uprisings. Black activists galvanized multi-racial rebellion among GIs, welfare mothers, students, and prisoners. College campuses and high schools erupted in militant protest against the Vietnam War. A predominantly white New Left, inspired by the Black movement, fought for an end to U.S. intervention abroad and a more humane and cooperative way of life at home. By the late 1960s, deep-rooted resistance had revived among Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. A second wave of broad-based strugglefor women's liberation had also emerged, along with significant efforts by lesbians, gay men, and disabled people. Millions of people in the United States began to reject the dominant ideology and culture. Thousands challenged basic U.S. political and economic institutions. For a brief moment, "the crucial mixture of people's confidence in the government and lack of confidence in themselves which allows the government to govern, the ruling class to rule...threatened to break down." By the mid-1970s, this upheaval had largely subsided. Important progressive activity persisted, mainly on a local level, and much continued to be learned and won, but the massive, militant Black and New Left movements were gone. The sense of infinite possibility and of our collective power to shape the future had been lost. Progressive momentum dissipated. Radicals found themselves on the defensive as right-wing extremists gained major government positions and defined the contours of accepted political debate. Many factors besides COINTELPRO contributed to this change. Important progress was made toward achieving movement goals such as Black civil rights, an end to the Vietnam War, and university reform. The mass media, owned by big business and cowed by government and right-wing attack, helped to bury radical activism by ceasing to cover it. Television, popular magazines, and daily papers stereotyped Blacks as hardened criminals and welfare chiselers or as the supposedly affluent beneficiaries of reverse "discrimination." White youth were portrayed first as hedonistic hippies and mindless terrorists, later as an apolitical, self-indulgent "me generation." Both were scapegoated as threats to "decent, hard-working Middle America." During the severe economic recession of the early- to mid- 1970s, former student activists began entering the job market, some taking on responsibility for children. Many were scared by brutal government and right-wing attacks culminating in the murder of rank-and-file activists as well as prominent leaders. Some were strung out on the hard drugs that had become increasingly available in Black and Latin communities and among white youth. Others were disillusioned by mistreatment in movements ravaged by the very social sicknesses they sought to eradicate, including racism, sexism, homophobia, class bias and competition. Limited by their upbringing, social position, and isolation from older radical traditions, 1960s activists were unable to make the connections and changes required to build movements strong enough to survive and eventually win structural change in the United States. Middle-class students did not sufficiently ally with working and poor people. Too few white activists accepted third world leadership of multi-racial alliances. Too many men refused to practice genuine gender equality. Originally motivated by goals of quick reforms, 1960s activists were ill-prepared for the long-term struggles in which they found themselves. Overly dependent on media-oriented superstars and one-shot dramatic actions, they failed to develop stable organizations, accountable leadership, and strategic perspective. Creatures of the culture they so despised,
[CTRL] Internetworking and the Threat of Democracy [pt 1]
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[CTRL] Manifesto of the O.T.O.
-Caveat Lector- Here's a quote: "It [OTO] possesses the secret of the Stone of the Wise, of the Elixir of Immortality, and of the Universal Medicine. "Moreover, it possesses a Secret capable of realizing the world-old dream of the Brotherhood of Man." This "Manifesto" is from the OTO US headquarters site: http://www.otohq.org/oto/ (Still haven't found Crowley's drawing of the grey who was his channellor.) - BAPHOMET XI° Liber LII http://www.otohq.org/oto/l52.html Book 52 O. T. O. Manifesto of the O.T.O. The Manifesto provides a concise summary of the various threads of initiatic tradition that make up the O.T.O.. It was first published from Boleskine circa 1912 E.V., and reprinted in The Equinox III(1) (Detroit: Universal, 1919). --H.B. Issued by Order: BAPHOMET XI° O.T.O., HIBERNIÆ IONÆ ET OMNIUM BRITANNIARUM, REX SUMMUS SANCTISSIMUS PEACE, TOLERANCE, TRUTH: SALUTATION ON ALL POINTS OF THE TRIANGLE; RESPECT TO THE ORDER. To all whom it may concern: Greeting and Health. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. The O.T.O. is a body of initiates in whose hands are concentrated the wisdom and the knowledge of the following bodies: .The Gnostic Catholic Church. .The Order of the Knights of the Holy Ghost. .The Order of the Illuminati. .The Order of the Temple (Knights Templar). .The Order of the Knights of St. John. .The Order of the Knights of Malta. .The Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. .The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal. .The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. .The Holy Order of Rose Croix of Heredom. .The Order of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch. .The Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry (33 degrees). .The Rite of Memphis (97 degrees). .The Rite of Mizraim (90 degrees). .The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry (33 degrees). .The Swedenborgian Rite of Masonry. .The Order of the Martinists. .The Order of the Sat Bhai, and many other orders of equal merit, if of less fame. It does not include the AA, with which august body it is, however, in close alliance. It does not in any way infringe the just privileges of duly authorized Masonic Bodies. 2. The dispersion of the original secret wisdom having led to confusion, it was determined by the Chiefs of all these Orders to recombine and centralize their activities, even as white light, divided in a prism, may be recomposed. It embodies the whole of the secret knowledge of all Oriental Orders; and its chiefs are initiates of the highest rank, and recognized as such by all capable of such recognition in every country in the world. In more remote times, the constituent originating assemblies of the O.T.O. included such men as: .Fohi .Hippolytus .Laotze .Merlin .Siddartha .Arthur .Krishna .Titurel .Tahuti .Amfortas .Ankh-f-n-khonsu .Percivale .Herakles .Mosheh .Orpheus .Odysseus .Vergilius .Mohammed .Catullus .Hermes .Martialis .Pan .Apollonius Tyanaeus .Dante .Simon Magus .Carolus Magnus .Manes .William of Schyren .Basilides .Frederick of Hohenstaufen .Valentinus .Roger Bacon .Bardesanes .Jacobus Burgundus Molensis .King Wu .Ko Hsuen .Christian Rosenkreutz .Osiris .Ulrich von Hutten .Melchizedek .Paracelsus .Khem .Michael Maier .Menthu .Jakob Boehme .Johannes Dee .Francis Bacon .Sir Edward Kelly .Andrèa .Thos. Vaughan .Robertus de Fluctibus .Elias Ashmole .Chau .Comte de Chazal .Saturnus .Sigismund Bacstrom .Dionysus .Molinos And recently: .Wolfgang von Goethe .Friedrich Nietzsche .Sir Richard Payne Knight .Hargrave Jennings .Sir Richard Francis Burton .Carl Kellner .Forlong Dux .Eliphas Lèvi .Ludovicus Rex Bavariae .Franz Hartmann .Richard Wagner .Cardinal Rampolla .Ludwig von Fischer .Papus (Dr. Encausse) The names of women members are never divulged. It is not lawful here to disclose the name of any living chief. It was Carl Kellner who revived the exoteric organization of the O.T.O. and initiated the plan now happily complete of bringing all occult bodies again under one governance. The letters O.T.O. represent the words Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Temple of the Orient, or Oriental Templars), but they have also a secret meaning for initiates. 3. The Order is international, and has existing branches in every civilized country of the world. 4. The aims of the O.T.O. can only be understood fully by its highest initiates; but it may be said openly that it teaches Hermetic Science or Occult Knowledge, the Pure and Holy Magick of Light, the Secrets of Mystic attainment, Yoga of all forms, Gnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakta Yoga and Hatha Yoga, and all other branches of the secret Wisdom of the Ancients. In its bosom repose the Great Mysteries; its brain has resolved all the problems of philosophy and of life. It possesses the secret of the Stone of the Wise, of the Elixir of Immortality, and of the Universal Medicine. Moreover, it possesses a Secret capable of realizing the world-old dream of the Brotherhood of Man. It also possesses in every important centre of population a hidden
Re: [CTRL] [prj] HOW TO DEFEAT STATISM
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/14/99 5:01:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Statism is the doctrine that maintains that your life, money and property are not yours. It is the idea that you may only take those actions permitted by the state, that you may be forced to surrender your money to the state or forbidden to spend it as you please, that you may not use and dispose of your property as you see fit. everything previously prohibited is now mandatory! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Oct. 15 column -- the population bomb
In a message dated 10/13/1999 11:48:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED OCT. 15, 1999 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz The population bomb is defused Some of the enthusiasm seems to have ebbed from the birthday celebration. This week -- on Tuesday Oct. 12, supposedly, though the selection of a precise date was a bit arbitrary -- the folks who attempt to estimate world population assure us an infant was born, who became the earth's 6 billionth living human being. Plans were for outfits like the Sierra Club to ballyhoo this event as a further sign that we are racing ever more rapidly towards our own destruction as a species, further proof that we need to move a lot faster in authorizing governments to use much stronger measures to -- well, to do whatever it is governments do to stop folks from having so many children, since excess population, as we all know, causes air pollution, thirst, famine, disease, global warming, the destruction of the rain forests, and the extinction of who knows how many yet-to-be-discovered species of obscure bugs and slime molds, not to mention causing acne, halitosis, and sunspots. After all, it took 123 years -- from 1804 to 1927 -- for the world population to double from 1 billion to 2 billion people. But it took only 33 years (1927 tom 1960) to add another billion and only 14 years (1960 to 1974) to grow from 3 to 4 billion. It's geometric! But a slight problem arose on the way to the great auto-da-fe. First, the "birthday" of the 6 billionth child had to be delayed a few years. Turns out fertility rates have been falling all by themselves. Any rate below 2.1 means a population isn't even replacing itself, and America's rate is already down to 1.99. Yes, the world fertility rate remains at 2.71 -- largely because children are thought of as additional helping hands, rather than as economic burdens, in impoverished rural economies. But world-wide, that's down from an average of 5 children per woman as recently as the early 1950s. And -- even more frustrating to those seeking an excuse for strong central governments to impose harsh controls -- it turns out the true answer to the population "problem" is not some form of infanticide combined with careful government rationing of limited resources, but rather prosperity and free-market capitalism, which have demonstrated a resilient tendency to locate ever more resources, and to distribute them so efficiently that life expectancies and standards of living have actually gone up, not down. Nations with the lowest rate of births -- without the kind of draconian limits on family size espoused by those past masters of centralized planning, the Communist Chinese -- turn out to be free economies like Germany, Italy, Greece, and the Czech Republic, with current reproduction rates all falling between 1.15 and 1.30. Nations with the highest fertility rates remain those that still live under various forms of feudal kleptocracy or collectivist tyranny, including Uganda, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Angola -- where rates still run from 6.80 to 7.25, in part because parents in such benighted cultures simply don't expect most of their children to live. But even at those rates, world population growth is down from 2 percent a year in 1960 to 1.3 percent today, and is expected -- even by the United Nations -- to drop below the no-growth level of 0.3 percent by the year 2050. Yes, world population may still climb to 8 billion in the next 50 years -- an increase of about 33 percent. But that will have a far (start ital)smaller(end ital) impact than the tripling of the world population from 1927 to 1999. And at that point, it actually appears human population could start to (start ital)fall(end ital). "Many people would be surprised to learn that the growth rate is declining," U.N. demographer Thomas Buettner told the Los Angeles Times last week. "People think it's out of control, that the population is growing like cancer. But if you look hard, you see many signs ... that stabilization will occur, or go into the negative. People are controlling their own lives and this has impacts on the number of children we have. We have virtually no country anymore that has not started at least a modest fertility decline." How about that. The "Population Bomb": It's another dud. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His new book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at $21.95 plus $3 shipping through Mountain Media, P.O. Box 271122, Las Vegas, Nev. 89127. The 500-page trade paperback may also be ordered via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html, or at 1-800-244-2224. Volume discounts available. *** Vin Suprynowicz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The evils of
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Murder of Mumia Scheduled
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/14/1999 12:12:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge just signed the death warrant for African-American activist and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. The state-sponsored murder of Mumia is scheduled for December 2, 1999. If you can, please protest on his behalf (http://mumia.org/story1.html). I'm trying to figure out if Tom Ridge has discovered that he won't be George Bush's running mate and now can kill Mumia without worrying about international pickets at our next presidential election. It sure doesn't seem like a prudent thing to do if he wants to share the ticket. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Internetworking and the Threat of Democracy [pt 1]
-Caveat Lector- Er...all I found when I opened this attachment was a fragment of code... -Original Message- From: Joe Feck [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Internetworking and the Threat of Democracy [pt 1] File: INTERNET.TXT DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- Re: "Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes..." yada yada yada... I read the article attached to this one. So...looks like Paul has finally achieved the founding of a new evangelical religious movement! Move over Jerry Falwell! Wonder where he plans to set up his "Vatican." Amherst, maybe? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Murder of Mumia Scheduled
-Caveat Lector- All the Supreme Court's decision does is to throw the ball back to a lower court. Mumia and his attorneys have so many petitions before Federal court that the guy will likely live to a ripe old age behind bars. This is precisely why it's been noted by more than one observer that the surest way to guarantee a life sentence is to give a prisoner the death penalty. Mumia is manipulating the system and manipulating thousands of well-meaning but ignorant leftists. Sure, the Philadelphia DA and Police Department screwed up the case, just like they're still screwing up cases right and left. That doesn't mean Mumia didn't kill the officer. It just means he didn't get a fair trial, either the first time or the second time. Yes, the death penalty *is* murder, and two wrongs *don't* make a right, my Jesuit professors and their Principle of Double Effect to the contrary notwithstanding. My own personal opinion is that instead of death, we ought to use complete isolation for life...that is, contact with *no one*. It would serve people like Mumia right if they had to spend the rest of their lives with no one to talk to except themselves. -Original Message- From: Prudence L. Kuhn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Murder of Mumia Scheduled -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/14/1999 12:12:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge just signed the death warrant for African-American activist and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. The state-sponsored murder of Mumia is scheduled for December 2, 1999. If you can, please protest on his behalf (http://mumia.org/story1.html). I'm trying to figure out if Tom Ridge has discovered that he won't be George Bush's running mate and now can kill Mumia without worrying about international pickets at our next presidential election. It sure doesn't seem like a prudent thing to do if he wants to share the ticket. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Where do we come from?
-Caveat Lector- Just passing this on Peter Where do we come from? The Sumerian cuneiform deciphering skills of Zecharia Sitchin, a linguist in command of many ancient languages who has set the scientific world on its ear with his astounding interpretations of ancient writings. In 1976, Sitchin's first book, The Twelfth Planet, began an odyssey that has literally transformed the field of ancient history; in 1993 came the sixth book in his Earth Chronicle series, When Time Began. Among other mind boggling assertions, this book links the complex calendar of Stonehenge and the puzzling ruins of Tiahuanacu in Peru to the ancient culture of the Sumerians, and by extension, to the Nibiruans, who are also called the Anunnaki. These are the folks Sitchin insists not only created the Sumerian culture, but who also genetically created human beings as we know them. And yes, they live on this mysterious 12th planet, Nibiru. To date, Sitchin has deciphered more then 2,000 clay cylinders from that ancient land on the Persian Gulf that existed some 6,000 years ago. Some of these fragments, which date to 4,000 B.C., are in museums around the world. One fragment in particular, presently in Germany, indicates that Earth is the seventh planet, counting in from Pluto. The time frame here is four millennia before modern astronomy confirmed the existence of Pluto as an actual planet in our solar system. So how did an ancient race of people know this fact? Sitchin says it is because these ancient people did not come from Earth, but from Nibiru. Profound family squabbles eventually caused the Nibiruans to abandon planet Earth, leaving human beings to fend for themselves. These early humans would never possess the ability to travel among the stars like their creators, nor would they possess the immortality of their creators. Eons later, however, we humans finally have sent an intelligently designed satellite probe beyond the confines of our solar system. Are we repeating our past? This is but one of the perplexing questions Sitchin investigates in the Earth Chronicles. Not only an eminent archaeologist, Sitchin is also a formidable analyst of ancient cultures, in fact, perhaps the best ever. His explicative comparisons of similar but disparate mythologies provide a fuller understanding of world religions. Among other things, Sitchin's investigations indicate that there may be an outpost in orbit around Mars preventing current humans from getting there (a fact verified by both U.S. and Russian space probe problems in that neighborhood). But the primary focus of this impressive research is ancient Sumer. The decipherment of that culture's clay tablets, buried for millennia, reveals roots that stretch all the way back to 450,000 B.C. The reason Sitchin was motivated to learn to read cuneiform tablets was his initial curiosity as a Cuneiform tablets boy concerning the meaning of "Nefilim", an enigmatic group mentioned in the Old Testament. Translated, "Nefilim" means "those who came down." "Came down from where" is the starting point that makes the Earth Chronicles better reading than any Sherlock Holmes mystery. In order to unlock the mystery, Sitchin takes on a journey all around the world to ancient cities and former civilizations. It would be impossible to do justice to his research in such a brief review as this one; however, there are some very significant findings on the existence of this other race of people. Perhaps the most compelling is the "face on Mars," the structure in the area called Cydonia on the Red Planet. What is it? If the relationship of the face on Mars is analysed for its distance to other pyramidal structures also discovered on Mars, the geometric relationship is found to be identical to the distances of the Egyptian Sphinx and the pyramids in the surrounding areas of Egypt. Sitchin concluded the placement of these pyramids indicates that they served as landing markers for the Nibiruans after they entered the Earth's atmosphere from outer space. Sitchin also has asserted that the early pyramids were not designed by the Egyptians. NBC-TV aired a program on Nov.10, 1993 entitled "The Mystery of the Sphinx", indicating that the Sphinx is 2,000 years older than previously thought. This corroborates Sitchin's findings that someone other than the Egyptians designed the pyramids. One astounding assertion after another has made Sitchin the most controversial
Re: [CTRL] Where do we come from?
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: earthman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sumerian cuneiform deciphering skills of Zecharia Sitchin, a linguist in command of many ancient languages who has set the scientific world on its ear with his astounding interpretations of ancient writings. Are Stichin's translations reproducable? Have any other linguists translated the same texts the same way? If not, why not? Do you value unconfirmed reports, non-repeatable results, unvalidated notions? Is consensus too boring? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: C. Laughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: "Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes..." yada yada yada... So...looks like Paul has finally achieved the founding of a new evangelical religious movement! Move over Jerry Falwell! Wonder where he plans to set up his "Vatican." Amherst, maybe? That would be "irreligious movement", I believe. Better than a religious movement, a bowel movement, the usual social demagoguery, eh? "We're no longer just a movement, we're a revolution -- and we've got what it takes to kick some irrational butt!" Yowser... I seem to recall Tom Jefferson writing something about the need to have a new revolution every 20 years or so. Maybe it's time for a revolution to kick wishful/magical thinking out of public life, eh? Or are godless ethics more than most people can handle? Amherst isn't really the right place for an antiVatican, though. I'd nominate Provincetown. Better situated. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Where do we come from?
-Caveat Lector- I think pictures are worth a thousand words.. Just go take a peek.. http://xfacts.com/x2.htm This URL was handy, I could supply you with more if you like and I can thoroughly recommend reading the 12th Planet as a starter.. Facts not Faith.. Peter Nice to have you back you sceptical @#%*.. :) We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage Bargain Books http://bn.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1349732?siteid=10734186bfpage=b - Original Message - From: Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Where do we come from? -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: earthman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sumerian cuneiform deciphering skills of Zecharia Sitchin, a linguist in command of many ancient languages who has set the scientific world on its ear with his astounding interpretations of ancient writings. Are Stichin's translations reproducable? Have any other linguists translated the same texts the same way? If not, why not? Do you value unconfirmed reports, non-repeatable results, unvalidated notions? Is consensus too boring? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Where do we come from?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-10-14 15:43:20 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But Sitchin is well aware of this devil's advocacy, and vaporizes the arguments of skeptics with solid scholarship, including the most rigorous translations of Sumerian text, Vedic tales and excerpts from the original Greek and Hebrew versions of the Bible. This ability to translate many languages is no small achievement. Those of us who will never possess the ability to decipher 6,000-year-old clay tablets must TRUST sic that Sitchin has done his job accurately. The work of Zecharia Sitchin is without question the most mind stretching cosmology available to date. Furthermore, it appears unchangeable academically. Oh, bull. Might as well say Art Bell is a more brilliant physicist than Albert Einstein. Sitchin is just another Von Dahniken, with a bigger grab-bag bibliography tacked on. Academically, Sitchin's work is SO POOR --tested, he couldn't even "decipher" ordinary Sumerian GRAMMAR correctly!-- it's BENEATH COMMENT by reputable scholars. His CONCEPTS are provocative, sure, but as for PROVING them, he not only grasps at straws, he FABRICATES much "evidence," perfectly willing to LIE to suit his purposes. I've met him and I've asked him challenging questions, which he was unable to answer, since any conversation outside his (prepared) "script" reveals that he is less intelligent than many of his readers. The only question is, who's his 'ghost writer'? -- Cui bono? He claims to have studied under Samuel Noah Kramer. Dr Kramer never heard of him. Do other Sumerologists know of him? No, since he has never studied at any university with a faculty devoted to ancient languages. Does he have a degree? Let him try and prove THAT! He states he studied at the London School of Economics -- prep-school for NWO intelligentsia, including psy-op specialists like (small world) Whitley Strieber-- where he says he majored in ECONOMICS. A short-term summer-school program, no doubt. If he's such a brilliant scholar, where do we see his Curriculum Vitae, much less his RESUME? NONE of his own claims about his background can be substantiated ... DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Manifesto of the O.T.O.
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Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Danite Irish]
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In a message dated 99-10-14 12:26:32 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the wide distribution of names such as Dan, Don, Danu, Diana, Tana,
Danaan, Danaus, Danuvius/Danube, and the like. Indo-European linguists
derive such river names as "Don" (Ukraine) and "Danube" (Central/Eastern
Europe) from a Pro-Indo-European (PIE) root *dôn, "?flowing water"
Tracing such god-names back to the tribe of "Dan" (="judge" in Hebrew) among
the Israelites falls short of something more radical -- that same word in
Hebrew originated in SUMERIAN (see the basic Sumerian lexicon at
http://www.sumerian.org/sumerlex.htm)
and the sea-faring "Danites" of Israel were apparently a later "add-on" to
the Tribes -- an adopted group of Phoenicians, if not indeed some
late-surviving SUMERIAN colony.
Otherwise, apart from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "flowing water,"
there's that old IE word for "shining" and "sky" (a god-word) that becomes in
Latin Deus (alternately --the "u" becoming hard "v" in some dialects-- Divus,
souirce of the woird "divine") and Jove (the "d" mutating from "dy" [Dyaus in
Sanskit) to "dj" and then to a "j" sound], as well as Diana and Jana/Janus
("n" popping up) and Greek Potei-don (Poseidon). Not to mention the old
Greek "de" (variant of "ge") as in De-meter ("mother EARTH") that may relate
such words to an IE root meaning LAND (territory) rather than "flowing water"
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[CTRL] (Fwd) [BRIGADE] Berger Rejects Constitution
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Linda Muller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Brigade, "In addition, the United States also will continue to abide by the terms of the rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said ``Under the Vienna Convention (governing treaty law) a country that signs a treaty cannot do anything inconsistent with that treaty unless the president -- not the Senate ... essentially renounces the treaty, and we have no intention of doing that,'' ..." GO PAT GO Linda From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:39:37 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda: Thought this story might be of interest because of Sandy Berger's apparent belief that the Constitution doesn't count. ``Under the Vienna Convention (governing treaty law) a country that signs a treaty cannot do anything inconsistent with that treaty unless the president -- not the Senate ... essentially renounces the treaty, and we have no intention of doing that,'' Berger said in a telephone interview. Does this mean that by treaty we have eliminated the role of the Senate in ratifying treaties? Hawk -- Clinton To Fight For Nuclear Pact, Keep Test Halt Reuters, Thursday, October 14 1999 12:37 AM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton vowed Wednesday the United States would eventually ratify a treaty banning nuclear arms testing despite the Senate's rejection of the pact, and said a U.S. nuclear test moratorium still stood. ``This agreement is critical to protecting the American people from the dangers of nuclear war. It is therefore well worth fighting for. And I assure you the fight is far from over,'' Clinton said on the White House lawn. ``When all is said and done the United States will ratify the treaty,'' he said. Clinton said the United States would continue its nuclear weapons testing moratorium in place since 1992. ``Russia, China, Britain and France have joined us in this moratorium. Britain and France have done the sensible thing and ratified this treaty. I hope not only they, but also Russia, China will all, along with other countries, continue to refrain from nuclear testing,'' he said. In addition, the United States also will continue to abide by the terms of the rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said. ``Under the Vienna Convention (governing treaty law) a country that signs a treaty cannot do anything inconsistent with that treaty unless the president -- not the Senate ... essentially renounces the treaty, and we have no intention of doing that,'' Berger said in a telephone interview. He said, however, the United States for now would lose the benefits of the monitoring and inspection systems that would be implemented if the treaty was ratified by all 44 nuclear capable nations and went into effect. The treaty defeat also makes it harder to persuade the newest nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, to desist from further tests, Berger said. It was important for the United States to reassure the world it would continue to exercise leadership in nonproliferation, he said. Clinton spoke shortly after the Republican-controlled Senate handed him one of his bitterest foreign policy defeats, rejecting the treaty by a 51-48 vote. The final vote was far short of the two-thirds majority needed to ratify the treaty. Republican opponents said the pact failed to adequately ensure against cheating by nuclear powers and would leave the United States unable to guarantee the reliability of its nuclear arsenal. Clinton termed the rejection ``reckless'' and ``partisan'' act, which followed failed negotiations to delay the vote. ``We have to keep this issue alive and continue to argue it in the strongest and most forceful terms,'' he said. ``The test ban treaty is strongly in America's interests. It is still on the Senate calendar. It will not go away.'' ``I wish we could have had a responsible alternative. I worked until the 11th hour to achieve it. This was a political deal and I hope it will get the treatment from the American people it richly deserves,'' he said. -- end -- Spread the word -- forward this email across the USA! ** Don't Miss Out - Join the BRIGADE Email List! To Subscribe-Unsubscribe: Click on/Click off at: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-p-brigade-list-subscribe.html *** Help Pat and the Brigade in our Battle for the White House... Go to: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-v-helppat.html *** Official WebSite for Patrick J. Buchanan for President Web: http://www.gopatgo2000.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 1-703-734-2700 WebMaster - Linda Muller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8233 Old
[CTRL] FW: As the Millennium Churns
-Caveat Lector- Thought you might be interested... -Original Message- From: Common Courage Political Literacy Course [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:44 PM To: List Member Subject: As the Millennium Churns Information about this email course appears at the bottom. Steal These Facts! As we head off optimistically into the 21st century, consider a few indicators that it's not going to be a totally new era: 1. Small is lucrative: The 1998 budget approved by Congress included expenditures such as the following: $700,000 for building a pedestrian overpass in a town with a population of 306; $15,000,000 toward renovating a gravel strip in a town with a population of 451. 2. Death takes its poll: Some 50,000 Oklahomans voted for a woman in the Democratic primary running for a Senate position--even though she had died six weeks before the election. 3. Bully Pulpit: Even though the FBI's 1997 data shows that the rate of violent crime has dropped since the 1970s, two-thirds of Americans actually think that crime rates are increasing. The Kentucky Legislature voted 76-9 to let ministers carry concealed handguns during sermons. 4. Equal opportunity department: In a recent Forbes magazine list of the 400 richest Americans, only one--Oprah Winfrey--is black. 5. Flight of fancy: The General Accounting Office of the federal government has reported that the several-billion dollar B-2 stealth bomber, allegedly impervious to enemy radar detection, will lose its stealth coating if it comes into contact with moisture, such as ordinary rain. [Note: The original specs for the F-117 Stealth fighter called for the aircraft to be colored pale pink, which was determined to blend in with the widest number of backgrounds. The Air Force rejected this after their "Top Gun" pilots objected, arguing that the only color macho enough for them was black. This is fine in night operations. Unfortunately, as the Air Force discovered in Kosovo, in daylight, especially against a cloudy sky, the Stealth sticks out like a sore thumb...all because Air Force pilots' manhood was too threatened by the idea of flying a pink aircraft.--Bob] 6. Fat or cancer: the tough choice. Despite the conclusion of the head of the Harvard School of Public Health that the artificial fat substitute Olestra will cause thousands of cases of cancer, and more than 5,000 letters complaining of bad experiences with Olestra, the Food and Drug Administration reviewed and approved Olestra twice. 7. Executing Justice: In 1997, the six governments which executed the greatest number of people per capita were China, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Florida and Texas. For more facts that make you laugh and cry at the same time, see "Steal this Book and Get Life Without Parole: Incendiary Insights by Investigative Humorist Bob Harris," a man who has been called a cross between Lenny Bruce and Noam Chomsky. Click on http://www.commoncouragepress.com/steal.html. TOMORROW: More facts to steal from Bob Harris This is the free Political Literacy Course from Common Courage Press: A backbone of facts to stand up to spineless power. Email 28, October 14 1999. Week 6: History and the Future Homepage: http://www.commoncouragepress.com To subscribe for free: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chatroom: http://www.cartserver.com/bbs/a/3827/index.cgi Feedback/Title suggestions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Missed any? Course archive: http://www.commoncouragepress.com/politlitarchive.html Feel free to forward so the list grows! __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Robert F. Tatman Computer Help Desk Desktop LAN Services Systems Department Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215.854.2729 215.854.2788 The contents of this message represent the opinion only of the writer, and may not be construed to indicate the endorsement of Knight-Ridder, Inc.; Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.; The Philadelphia Inquirer; or the Philadelphia Daily News. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL
[CTRL] [Fwd: FT WORTH SLAUGHTER]Newshawk
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: FT WORTH SLAUGHTER Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:06:10 + From: Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Watchword Subject: FT WORTH SLAUGHTER Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:32:10 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Below is an excellent, thought-provoking analysis of the Ft. Worth church shootings one month ago. The writer calls special attention to the undeniably unusual video of the entire slaughter "found" afterward by law enforcement. Also noted below is that CNN Radio News broadcast an item stating alleged Ft. Worth gunman Larry Ashbrook was heard while shooting to be yelling that the government needed to enforce gun control and stop gun shows! Eh... WHAT??? Some "leaky" programming here, it appears! NewHawk® Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE -- http://www.konformist.com/1999/ftworth-jq.htm -- MAKES MANY RELEVANT POINTS ABOUT THE FT. WORTH INCIDENT. AN ADDITIONAL POINT THAT I FOUND STRANGE IS THAT SOMEONE HAPPENED TO BE VIDEOTAPING THE CHURCH CEREMONY THAT DAY. THIS PERSON CONTINUED TO TAPE ASHBROOK WHILE HE WAS SHOOTING, AT LEAST UNTIL THE GUN IS POINTED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE VIDEOGRAPHER, WHO THEN DROPS THE CAMERA. THE VIDEO CAMERA WITH INTACT TAPE IS FOUND IN THE CHURCH LATER BY POLICE AND THE TAPE IS SHOWN TO DOCUMENT THE SLAUGHTER. STRANGELY, THE POLICE CAN NOT DETERMINE WHO OWNS THE CAMERA, AS NO ONE ADMITS TO BEING THE OWNER. I EVEN READ IN ONE OF THE NEWS MAGAZINES THAT 2 VIDEO CAMERAS WERE FOUND, THOUGH THAT MAY REPRESENT SIMPLE MISREPORTING. OR MAYBE THEY JUST CAN'T GET THE STORY STRAIGHT. I SUSPECT THAT THE TAPE WAS INTENDED TO DOCUMENT THE EVENT IN ORDER TO CRITIQUE THE RESULTS OF THE MIND CONTROL PROJECT AND/OR TO BE USED AS VIVID ANTI-GUN FOOTAGE WHEN IT WAS BROADCAST BY THE MEDIA. PERHAPS THE VIDEO WAS UNINTENTIONALLY LEFT BEHIND WHEN THE VIDEOGRAPHER PANICKED AS THE GUN WAS POINTED HIS WAY, OR MAYBE IT WAS INTENDED TO BE FOUND. EVEN MORE BIZZARRE, I HEARD ON CNN HOURLY RADIO NEWS ABOUT 3AM 2 WEEKS AGO THAT ON THE VIDEO ASHBROOK IS HEARD TO YELL THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO START ENFORCING GUN LAWS AND BAN GUN SHOWS. THIS WAS SO CRAZY THAT I JUMPED OUT OF BED! IF HE DID SAY THIS, HE WAS CLEARLY PROGRAMMMED TO DO SO. IF HE DID NOT SAY IT, CNN IS LYING THRU ITS CORPORATE NEW WORLD ORDER TEETH. I HAVE NOT SEEN THE VIDEO BROADCAST, SO I CAN NOT VERIFY THIS. BUT I KNOW WHAT I HEARD ON CNN! QUESTION: HOW MANY LONE NUTS SLAUGHTERING CHILDREN AND CHURCHGOERS DOES IT TAKE TO ENGINEER SEVERE GUN CONTROL? ANSWER: AS MANY AS THEY NEED. I THINK OF EAST TIMOR AS AN EXAMPLE OF A SOCIETY WHERE ONLY GOVERNMENT-BACKED THUGS HAVE THE WEAPONS. NO CHANCE OF SELF-DEFENSE WHEN THEY COME AROUND TO HERD YOU LIKE SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER. AND AMERICANS, LIKE DULL SHEEP ARE BEING LED DOWN THE PRIMROSE PATH OF GUN CONTROL BECAUSE THE MEDIA AND POLITICIANS ARE TELLING THEM THAT TOO MANY GUNS ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS PATTERN OF SLAYINGS THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY INTENDED TO PRESS UPON THE MOST SENSITIVE NERVES IN THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS. AL http://www.konformist.com/1999/ftworth-jq.htm DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FW: New Clinton Grab for Power
-Caveat Lector- This will NEVER happen in the US. Yeah, right Read on. In a message dated 10/14/99 12:09:33 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: John Thoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's back!! Exec. Order #13083 (rescinded due to public outcry) is here again as Order #13132. It's basically an assault on the 10th ammendment. Another blatant assault on your feeedom and an attempt to expand the power of the federal government by usurping the rights of the states. --10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Read the dirty details at http://www.americanpolicy.org/ Clinton is using a series of exec. orders to change the structure of the nations' government. As Paula Begula a Clinton aid said after signing E.O. #13083, "stroke of the pen, law of the land...kinda cool." Yeah, kinda cool and kinda frightening. This is part of his Federalism philosophy...ALL POWER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT...and the dictator (president). The power he has amassed via E.O.'s is awesome and frightening. If y2k is only 1% as bad as the gloomers suggest, it is entirely possible that he will invoke martial law which by the way * suspends constitutional rights *. Expect Clinton to assume unilateral control of the central government. NB a new E.O. places the military under FEMA control in case of national emergency. OH! no we (white house) would never declare martial law in the US. Hey, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck This E.O demands for your immediate outcry to your congress person and governor. Congressmen Paul and Metcalf have introduced H.R. 2655, "The Separation of Powers and Restoration Act." The bill establishes the Constitutional separation between the President and Congress which dictates that Congress shall make policy and the President should enforce it. House capital switchboard 202-225-3121 Senate 202-224-3121 Make a call...take a stand for your freedom. Ask them to support H.R. 2655. John DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Danite Irish]
-Caveat Lector-
No basic disagreement...I was paraphrasing from *Celtic Heritage*, where the
authors propose this speculation in a note, admitting that it is highly
speculative. There *is* general agreement about IE scholars that river names
such as Don, Danube, etc., derive from PIE *dôn. Cognates are found across
the entire IE realm. (See J. P. Mallory, *In Search of the Indo-Europeans*,
for a good, scholarly, but highly readable survey of the "Indo-European
problem".)
The other names are guesswork...call it "poetic intuition" or
"retrocognition" if you like. What strikes me is the convergence of names:
Dana [Sumer!], Anath(a)[Palestine/Syria], Tanit [Phoenicia/Carthage], Athene
[Greece], Neith [Libya/Egypt], Diana [Rome], Danu [Ireland]. Diana would
seem, under this hypothesis, to have been syncretized with *diws, *div- at
an early date. Demeter (which Graves renders as "Mother Earth") was almost
certainly a *title* of the Great Goddess known variously as Hera, Athene,
Aphrodite, and Hekate, among other names. Many of these names appear to
predate the Indo-European invasion of Southeastern Europe.
One problem--indeed, *the* problem--in evaluating the prehistory of the
Mediterranean and the lands surrounding it is that elements from dozens, if
not hundreds, of cultures are mixed together so thoroughly that extricating
the individual items becomes well-nigh impossible. This difficulty is only
compounded by drawing in the Sumerians, who do not appear to derive from any
of the peoples indigenous to Mesopotamia, Anatolia, or Iran, and who did not
leave any descendants. There is no language that we know of based on
Sumerian. The Sumerian *script*, cuneiform, survived; the Sumerian
*language* survived after a fashion, as a trade, cult, and formal language,
although it is clear that the peoples using it had no idea of the original
pronunciation. It was, however, never used as the common speech...and there
is no evidence, as far as I know, that it was ever used as the common speech
even in *Sumer*! Was it an artificial language, created ex nihilo as both
Arabic and Hebrew were supposed to have been? What lies behind the biblical
story of the Tower of Babel and the Sumerian myth of the Descent of Inanna?
There is mystery enough here without adducing a "twelfth planet" and
supposed "elder race" whose slaves we were bred to be.
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Subject: Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Danite Irish]
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-10-14 12:26:32 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the wide distribution of names such as Dan, Don, Danu, Diana, Tana,
Danaan, Danaus, Danuvius/Danube, and the like. Indo-European linguists
derive such river names as "Don" (Ukraine) and "Danube" (Central/Eastern
Europe) from a Pro-Indo-European (PIE) root *dôn, "?flowing water"
Tracing such god-names back to the tribe of "Dan" (="judge" in Hebrew)
among
the Israelites falls short of something more radical -- that same word in
Hebrew originated in SUMERIAN (see the basic Sumerian lexicon at
http://www.sumerian.org/sumerlex.htm)
and the sea-faring "Danites" of Israel were apparently a later "add-on" to
the Tribes -- an adopted group of Phoenicians, if not indeed some
late-surviving SUMERIAN colony.
Otherwise, apart from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "flowing
water,"
there's that old IE word for "shining" and "sky" (a god-word) that becomes
in
Latin Deus (alternately --the "u" becoming hard "v" in some dialects--
Divus,
souirce of the woird "divine") and Jove (the "d" mutating from "dy" [Dyaus
in
Sanskit) to "dj" and then to a "j" sound], as well as Diana and Jana/Janus
("n" popping up) and Greek Potei-don (Poseidon). Not to mention the old
Greek "de" (variant of "ge") as in De-meter ("mother EARTH") that may
relate
such words to an IE root meaning LAND (territory) rather than "flowing
water"
...
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[CTRL] Fw: [LIFE-GAZETTE] Re: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim Crusades
-Caveat Lector- The plot thickens in this little conspiracy...eh? -Original Message- From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:03 PM Subject: Fw: [LIFE-GAZETTE] Re: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim "Crusades" From: "Franklin Wayne Poley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Vancouver Sun: Preston Manning, Canadian Reform Party Leader and Leader of the Official Opposition is quoted as saying that he is "thankful for Canada's Christian Heritage". But Manning has a long record as a sociopathic liar, a role for which his background as a "churchocrat" admirably qualifies him. Just ask him to articulate what a culture/society/nation today would be like if it were living the "lifestyle" of that "Christian Heritage". The CHP (Christian Heritage Party) doesn't know. Manning isn't qualified to polish boots in Canada today, let alone lead the Reform Party. FWP. cc-Saudi Gazette for consideration re publishing as a letter to the editor, [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -Original Message- From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:56 AM Subject: [LIFE-GAZETTE] Re: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim "Crusades" From: "Franklin Wayne Poley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Missions Fest in Vancouver is billed as North America's largest missionary meet. It is controlled by a narrow group of Protestants which even keeps out other Protestants or quasi-Protestant denominations which it regards as "cults" such as Christian Scientists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses. I have initiated a complaint/law suit against the Mfest Board for religious discrimination which is explicitly proscribed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms section of the Constitution. If I am successful (as I expect to be) then Roman Catholics AND Muslims can have exhibit booths at Mfest 2000 to tell us what a "Godly Nation" is like from their perspectives. So everyone can go on a crusade into "Deepest, Darkest Vancouver". FWP. See http://www.mfest.bc.ca -Original Message- From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:19 AM Subject: [CTRL] Catholic Bishop on Muslim "Crusades" -Caveat Lector- Bishop: Islam Expanding Conquests VATICAN CITY (AP) - Islam is driving into predominantly Christian countries in a new campaign of expansion and conquest, a bishop at a Vatican synod claimed Wednesday in a warning to his European colleagues. Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, archbishop of Izmir in Turkey, spoke at a synod of European bishops on what he said was Islam's growing challenge to Christianity, even on its home ground. ``The 'domination' has already started with petrodollars, used not to create jobs in poor countries in North Africa and the Middle East, but to build mosques and cultural centers in Christian countries ... including Rome, center of Christianity,'' Bernardini declared. ``Who cannot see in this a clear program of expansion and reconquest?'' he asked. The dire tone of his warning contrasted with repeated overtures to the Islamic world by Pope John Paul II, whose comments on Islam frequently stress the values it shares with Christianity. The archbishop was one of several at the synod to express frustration in dealing with the Islamic world, however. Others in the weeklong session have spoken of the need for cooperation between
[CTRL] (Fwd) Responses to Clinton's WTO Protest Welcome
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:43:11 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Responses to Clinton's WTO Protest Welcome Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 4:45 PM (Eastern Time) Thursday, October 14, 1999 RESPONSES AVAILABLE FROM SUPPORTERS OF WTO PROTESTS WELCOMED BY CLINTON Speaking at a news conference this afternoon, President Clinton said that he is not concerned about the massive protests planned for the World Trade Organization global summit when it convenes in Seattle in late November. The following policy analysts who support those protests are available for comment: SARAH ANDERSON, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's great that he's welcoming protesters outside the ministerial meeting, but it would be more meaningful for him to actually push for civil society to have a place inside, at the negotiating table," said Sarah Anderson, an economic analyst and fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. She added: "People are coming from around the world to protest because they've been locked out of this process." JULIETTE BECK, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We've joined with thousands of people around the planet to call for a reassessment of the WTO, not expansion, in Seattle -- and until President Clinton respects this call, he's not listening to the people who are raising these vital concerns," said Juliette Beck, statewide coordinator of the California Free Trade Campaign. "He can say all he wants about caring for the environment and labor, but until he agrees to a reassessment of the WTO, he's giving a green light to the corporate free-trade agenda that has gotten us into the social and environmental problems that we are all living with." KEVIN DANAHER, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danaher is co-founder of Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based organization that is among hundreds of groups involved in planning for protests at the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle during the week after Thanksgiving. "President Clinton said this afternoon that he doesn't think it's a bad thing that so many of us will be going to Seattle to protest the WTO ministerial meeting," Danaher said. "What he doesn't seem to realize is that the public is catching on to what the WTO is really about. It is an undemocratic institution that exercises more control over the rules of the global economy than any other institution -- and yet it operates in secret, with no representation of the interests of working people, small business and the environment." MARK WEISBROT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Against the meager gains from trade, we must consider the impact of trade on the distribution of income," said Mark Weisbrot, an economist who is research director of the Preamble Center based in Washington, D.C. "As trade has expanded over the last quarter century, the median real wage in the United States has actually fallen. There is no longer any doubt among economists that these two trends -- increasing trade and falling real wages -- are related." For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 AER ~~~ Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed.
Re: [CTRL] Religion
-Caveat Lector- If you know of texts that should be added to this page ... says Dave Wiley. well now that you ask I invented my own religion just to see if it could be done ... but initially in the hope of gaining some tax exemption ... :) Its called CONTINUISM - I invented my own 'genesis' story, used scientific analogy to model the basic ingredients I invented my own Cosmology and particle physics ... and even wrote my own book of ethics and I appointed myself the 'High Priest' :) .. then charged myself a lot of money for my membership ! but never got as far as employing a pretty secretary :( However - CONTINUISM can give anyone a run for their money - and I think that it deserves a place amongst those texts as: the worlds smallest religion whadyathink ? Andrew DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] (Fwd) NCPA Policy Digest 10-14-99
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- National Center For Policy Analysis DAILY POLICY DIGEST Thursday, October 14, 1999 PointCast can automatically load NCPA's Policy Digest summaries on your desktop for easy reading. For information go to http://www.ncpa.org/pointcast.html IN TODAY'S DIGEST o A SEVENFOLD INCREASE IN LAND PRICES and an apartment glut are some of the effects of "Smart Growth" policies in Portland, OreNCPA o CRITICAL INDUSTRIES HAVE NOT CERTIFIED THEIR Y2K COMPLIANCE, says former Gov. Pete Du PontNCPA/WASHINGTON TIMES o NOBEL ECONOMIST ROBERT A. MUNDELL is a defender of the gold standard and supply-side tax cuts, say observersWALL STREET JOURNAL o THE LONDON UNDERGROUND MAY BE PRIVATIZED despite the Paddington station wreck, say observersWALL STREET JOURNAL o THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS AN AGE DISCRIMINATION CASE brought by state employees, which raises issues of federalismNEW YORK TIMES o FASTEST GROWING AREAS AND INDUSTRIES HAVE LOWEST UNION MEMBERSHIP rate, according to an AFL-CIO studyNEW YORK TIMES o WHITES-ONLY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CHALLENGED, as black student claims his 14th Amendment rights are violatedCHICAGO TRIBUNE IN TODAY'S NEWS PORTLAND: SMART GROWTH'S BAD EXAMPLE Portland, Ore., is pioneering Smart Growth (also known as the New Urbanism), the latest fad in urban planning. Smart Growth promises such things as less congestion, more affordable housing and cleaner air, says economist Randal O'Toole. But in Portland, Smart Growth policies are delivering rapidly increasing congestion, higher housing prices and more pollution. Portland's regional government, called Metro, anticipates area population will increase 75 percent by 2040. Yet it plans to increase highway capacity no more than 13 percent while it adds 90 miles of rail transit lines to the 30 miles already built. o In 1990, 92 percent of all the trips taken in the Portland area were by auto, while 3 percent were by transit and the rest were by walking or bicycling (see figure http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba305/ba305fig1.gif ). o Metro officials project that even with planned changes, by 2040 Portlanders will still drive for 88 percent of their trips and use transit for just 6 percent. o And the number of miles of congested roads will more than triple -- partly due to "traffic calming" measures to discourage driving, such as narrowing and reducing the number of traffic lanes, including eliminating turn lanes on major streets. Metro plans to increase population density by two-thirds; for example, some neighborhoods of single-family homes have been rezoned for multi-family housing. There is now a huge surplus in apartment and multi-family housing and a major shortage of single-family homes. Since 1996, Portland has ranked among the five least affordable U.S. housing markets and land prices have increased sevenfold. Metro also admits that its plan will increase smog by 10 percent, which is consistent with Environmental Protection Agency data showing that the worst air pollution is found in the densest cities and urban areas. Source: Randal O'Toole, "Portland: Smart Growth's Bad Example," Brief Analysis No. 305, October 14, 1999, National Center for Policy Analysis, 12655 N. Central Expy., Suite 720, Dallas, Texas 75243, (972) 386-6272. For text http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba305/ba305.html For more on Land Use Controls http://www.ncpa.org/pd/state/state4.html BEWARE COMPLACENCY ON Y2K COMPLIANCE January 1, 2000, is only two-and-one-half months away and no one knows for sure whether their lights will stay on when that date rolls around. However, recently there was a long list of electricity suppliers who had not yet announced that they are Y2K compliant. Moreover, a long list of companies in the chemical industry, water suppliers and nuclear power plants that operate on computers had yet to affirm that they are 100 percent ready for the new millennium, according to Y2K expert Dick Lefkon. o The U.S. electric power industry is comprised of approximately 3,200 different electric utilities and some big names -- including Baltimore GE, Detroit Edison, Florida Power, Indianapolis PL, Minnesota Power and Wisconsin PL -- had yet to claim they are fully ready for the 21st Century. o The chemical industry is composed of approximately 69,000 operations -- but the government has Y2K data on fewer than 500 of them. o With regard to water supplies, we only have data on fewer than 600 of the 190,000 operations. o A Nuclear Energy Institute survey indicates that 22 of the nation's 103 nuclear reactors are not expected to be 100 percent ready until the fourth quarter. The hope
[CTRL] GOP News Views - October 14, 1999
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! * Bork Responds to Being Bush-Whacked 'Mr. Bush's speech was by no means his first effort to distance himself from the nasty conservatives. The week before, he seized a proposed minor tax revision as the occasion to denounce House Republicans for trying to âbalance the budget on the backs of the poor,â a patently false charge. Next, he claimed that Republicans were too absorbed with affluence and not sufficiently sensitive to people's needs. He gives the impression that the backs of the poor would be safe in his administration, but that he intends to reach the White House over the dead bodies of conservatives. No doubt Mr. Bush and his advisers believe themselves to be emulating the sunny, optimistic conservatism of Ronald Reagan, but they can't carry the tune or remember the lyrics. Mr. Reagan did sound a note of hope and of pride in America, but he most emphatically did not go out of his way to pander to the âmoderatesâ (read, Republican liberals) by attacking conservatives. Nor did Mr. Reagan shy away from using divisive and confrontational rhetoric, when reality called for it, as when he labeled the Soviet Union an âevil empireâ or denounced âwelfare queens.â Mr. Reagan wore the label conservative--no qualifications attached--proudly. ... George W. Bush may be the only chance to hold off the even worse Al Gore and Bill Bradley, but that we are reduced to such a choice merely shows how far we have slouched.â - Former judge and author of âSlouching Toward Gomorrahâ Robert Bork, Wall Street Journal, 10/11/99 Bush-Whacking Could Lose GOP Congress âTexas Gov. George W. Bush's obsession with triangulation has put House Republicans into a corner from which there may be no escape. Indeed, if the GOP loses control of the House next fall, it may well be because the party's presidential front-runner and his strategists made a conscious decision this fall to sacrifice Congress at the altar of his presidential ambition. ... Bush shouldn't fear defections to Pat Buchanan or whoever the Reform Party candidate is. He may not even have much to fear from his various primary opponents, but he should be very afraid that a few million conservative voters will decide that if he wants to be president just so he can be president, he'll have to get the job without their help. If that happens and if the Democrats begin to get their act together, the young man from Austin could turn out to be an unmitigated disaster for the party now worshipping at his feet.â - David Keene, The Hill, 10/13/99 *** Getting a âLewinskyâ - Take 1 âBernie Lewinsky is mad. Seems Bernie was watching TV the other night when a character in the show Law Order: Special Victims Unit referred to one person âdoing a Lewinskyâ on another - which was TV's clever way of saying one person was performing oral sex on another. Bernie wants an apology from NBC and from Dick Wolf, producer of the series. He says the comment held his daughter up to ridicule and defiled his family name. Sorry, Bernie. Your daughter held herself up to ridicule the first time she dropped to her knees and did a Lewinsky on the President of the United States. And you defiled your family name when, instead of acting like a father and demanding Bill Clinton's gonads on a platter, you gave TV interviews and talked about how much you respected the President and thought he was doing a good job for the country.â - Doug Thompson, Capitol Hill Blue, 10/13/99 * Getting a âLewinskyâ - Take 2 The father of Monica Lewinsky, Dr. Bernard Lewinsky, has taken up for his daughter by demanding an apology from the producers of the new cop show, âLaw Order: Special Victims Unit.â It seems that in a recent episode one character describes another as âgetting a Lewinsky.â We all know what that means. Papa Lewinsky, in a truly unfortunate turn of phrase, said he and his daughter deserved an apology. âIt's not right she be dragged down to the floor again.â Uh, Bernie?â - Rich Galen, âMullings,â 10/13/99 Top Ten New Army Slogans 10. The General's not the only one who gets a Hummer, baby! 9. Undefeated since 1975! 8. Be All That You Can Be -- Unless You're Gay, In Which Case Be About Six Times Less Outgoing Than You Can Be 7. Except for the large bleeding wounds, it's just like paintball. 6. Be there when we take out Canada! 5. Hey, we had cargo pants long before Old Navy. 4. Open fire in your high school -- Media outrage and possible jail time. Open fire in the Army -- Chest full o' medals, baby! 3. The US Army: Who needs those Community College snobs, anyway? 2. At least the
[CTRL] About Livelihood
-Caveat Lector- Listers: I totally admit that this is off topic, but I began discussing this barely with you on the Net as a means of survival if you are a mind control victim. Therefore, I don't feel it is totally off cue. IF you have been stock trading for survival -- and IF (which is likely) you feel that the bank has been gyping you -- join my club. There are ways to track and trace your capital expenses and profits with an account -- and special ways to look at it too. At least I believe so, even with balances upping and downing and banks claiming they can't straighten things sooner than 3 days. OFF the list, if you want my advise and recommendations -- these are short -- write to me privately. Judith DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] (Fwd) [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: Women Have Not Taken Over the Ne
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- FAIR-L Fairness Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports ACTION ALERT FROM FAIR'S WOMEN'S DESK: Women Have Not "Taken Over the News" --TV Guide cover story should look at the numbers before they cheer journalistic gender parity. Oct. 12, 1999 TV Guide's Oct. 9 - 15, 1999 cover story, titled "How Women Took Over The News," paints a pretty then-vs. -now picture of gender equity in the newsroom, in which "Women are on every beat, in every aspect of news, as fixtures in jobs traditionally held by men." Way back when, TV Guide reminisces, women were "second class citizens in TV news," subjected to age and gender discrimination, and Diane Sawyer "got into journalism... the old-fashioned way" - by wearing "pointy bras" and lots of hair spray. Not so anymore, TV Guide asserts, now that Sawyer shares the news media spotlight with Katie Couric, Christine Amanpour, Claire Shipman and other visible female journalists who are "setting the news agenda for America." TV Guide attributes their success to a journalistic "revolution" that reached "critical mass in the last decade." As proof-positive of this female victory, TV Guide tells us that ABC nearly doubled its number of women correspondents from 1991 to 1998. What the story doesn't give readers are the raw numbers - which disprove this gleaming image of journalistic gender parity. According to a 16 year longitudinal study by Joe Foote of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, ABC employed only 14 women correspondents (19 percent of the total) in 1991. By 1998, that number rose to 26 female correspondents (still making up only 39 percent of ABC's news roster). As for the news landscape as a whole, female reporters made up only one-third of the correspondent corps and covered only 28 percent of stories in 1998. Sure, female journalists fare better now then they did in the days of legally sanctioned gender discrimination - but they are still outnumbered two-to-one by their male counterparts. And when it comes to news women behind the camera, a 1998 Radio Television News Directors Association/Ball State University survey found that only 20 percent of local television news directors were women. Worse still is the issue of news ownership--a 1998 Broadcasting and Cable survey found no women heading the Top 25 media or television groups, broadcast networks or major cable programming companies. So much for women "setting the news agenda for America" by taking over "every aspect of news." TV Guide also says that the influx of powerful women in journalism has generated a "journalism of empathy," changing the "face and focus of the stories we care about the most." What does this mean? Sawyer explains: "The definition of hard news is changing, and what was soft news is now hard news - for instance, a story about day care and its effect on women's productivity can be a lead story on the news with Peter Jennings. It's what women in the newsroom and women at home care about more than what's happening in Sri Lanka." TV Guide further clarifies what they consider the "undeniable" influence of women over the news agenda: "more emphasis on such story topics as child care, education, health and the moral aspect of politics." That domestic programs like child care were ever considered "soft news" is as misguided as Sawyer's notion that women do not care about international politics, such as what might go on in Sri Lanka. Packaging education and health stories as "women's issues" while framing world politics as "universal" stories is simply bad journalism. The fact is, when media report the news as if women mattered, issues such as child care, domestic violence, health care and poverty and are all considered "hard news." And when media report the news as if women think, women are understood to be equally invested in coverage of foreign affairs, economics, science and technology. TV Guide's upbeat conclusion is that, no longer held back by institutional sexism, female journalists have come "a long way, baby." But when the female audience is so shallowly perceived - and women in the news corps still trail their male counterparts in large numbers - there's clearly still a long way to go. The more women (and people of color) succeed in the newsroom, the greater their perspectives can be felt in the ways the news is written and reported - which is why we need more stories about the necessity of increased access to every aspect of journalism, not cheery rah-rah-rah pieces indicating that the battle for journalistic parity has already been won. ACTION: Think there's something wrong with TV Guide's cover story on women's supposed journalistic coup? Tell them so. Write to Editor-in-Chief Steven Reddicliffe at: Editor in Chief Letters Department TV Guide Radnor, PA, 19088
[CTRL] Fwd: [FSNW-L] Pakistan showdown analysed
Thursday 14 October 1999, London-UK (pk9910aa) From: Parveez Syed Shanti Communications, Global Media Monitoring Unit One Stuart Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8RA1 UK Telephone: London-UK 0044-(0)7831-196693 E-Mail INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 1999 (c) Shanti Communications news agency. All rights reserved. The following feature may not be republished or redistributed, in whole or in part. Copying, storing, transfer, redistribution, retransmission, publication and exploitation of this information is hereby expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of Shanti Communications UK. Section 326 of the USA-FCC Communications Act; Title 17 USC Section 107; Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the First Amendment US rights apply to all material, contents and ideas published and broadcasted by Shanti Communications and Shanti RTV news agency. Pakistan showdown analysed (editorial pk9910) by Parveez Syed (c) Shanti Communications news LONDON, England (SC/SRTV) Thursday 14 October 1999 - Pakistani army led by General Pervaiz Musharraf dismissed prime minister Nawaz Sharif to help "end ten years of chaos, confusion, turmoil, unrest, uncertainty, and to stabilise the country". The "stabilising, bloodless and peaceful" military coup in Pakistan is highly unlikely produce any major changes in the country's foreign policy, according to a Western intelligence source who spoke to Shanti RTV news agency on condition of anonymity. "Three months ago (Sunday 04 July 1999), US ordered Sharif to fire Musharraf - the second military chief Sharif had forced out in less than a year - and replace him with Sharif fan, Lt General Khawaja Ziauddin (chief of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) agency). Only last month (September 1999), Ziauddin was again briefed by the CIA chief George Tenet, while the US State Department publicly claimed that it "strongly" opposed any attempt to change the government through extra-constitutional means". Musharraf, 56, turned down a recent 'invitation' to be briefed by the CIA and US-UK masters. Now the masters feel rejected. They are unhappy about Pakistan army disobeying their orders. The masters were aware of 'behind-the-scenes turmoil, positioning and floating of trial balloons'. They heard the rumblings and picked up signs of trouble in discussions with Ms Benazir Bhutto (the former prime minister) and Imran Khan (a former cricket player turned political opposition leader in Pakistan). The masters miscalculated. They had advance knowledge but their orders backfired when Pakistan army daringly refused to obey US-UK orders and rejected US-UK approved chiefs. Such US-UK interventions based on outdated, second-rate advice based on outdated, subvertive intelligence, and often backfire," the Western source told Shanti RTV news agency. The coup came within hours of Sharif's decision to fire Musharraf. There was virtually no public protest against the bloodless coup. "The armed forces have moved in as a last resort to prevent any further destabilisation. I have done so with all sincerity, loyalty and selfless devotion to the country with the armed forces firmly behind me," Musharraf said in a brief televised address on Wednesday 13 October 1999. "I only wish to assure you that the situation in the country is perfectly calm, stable and under control. Let no outside forces think that they can take advantage of the prevailing situation. We shall preserve the integrity and sovereignty of our country to the last drop of our blood. I request you all to remain calm and support your armed forces in the re-establishment of order to pave the way for a prosperous future for Pakistan," he said in a two-minute address to the nation broadcast on television at around 02:50am local time. The coup, the fourth in Pakistan's 52-year history, ended a string of democratically elected governments that have been in place since 1988. Soon after dismissing Sharif, top aides to Musharraf visited the chief justice of the country's supreme court to consult with him on how to proceed legally. Western intelligence groups often miscalculate whenever they under-estimate or over-estimate their perceived foes and fans or even their own capability impose and sustain despots outside the US-UK. Musharraf, born in August 1943, joined the army in 1964. He has a reputation as a tough, professional no-nonsense, commando-trained, headstrong soldier with 35 years of experience in the field. He is a veteran of two wars against India. He was decorated for service in the 1965 war with India, is a graduate of the Pakistani Command and Staff College at Quetta and also studied at military institutions in Britain. He is considered a great strategic thinker with a wide focus on things. Thanks to the 1985 Pressler Amendment, Musharraf has had less 'engagement' with the subvertive US saboteurs, interventionists or 'influencers' than almost any other senior army officer in Pakistan. He has a son and a
[CTRL] Afghanistan Human rights
-Caveat Lector- Van: | Jan-Peter Loof | Department of Public Law | Section Constitutional Administrative Law | F.M. van Asbeck Centre for Human Rights Studies | U n i v e r s i t y o f L e i d e n | P.O. Box 9520 - 2300 RA Leiden - The Netherlands | Phone: +31-(0)715277711 | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: woensdag 6 oktober 1999 17:27 Onderwerp: Women in Afganistan Women in Afghanistan The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to DEATH by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm while she was driving. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and stuffed into their homes, so that depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief Workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women, who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions, has increased significantly. Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior. Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging on the street, even if they hold Ph.D.'s. There are almost no medical facilities available for women, and relief workers, in protest, have mostly left the country, taking medicine and psychologists and other things necessary to treat the sky-rocketing level of depression among women. At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear. One doctor is considering, when what little medication that is left finally runs out, leaving these women in front of the president's residence as a form of peaceful protest. It is at the point where the term 'human rights violations' has become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative freedom, to work, dress generally as they wanted, and drive and appear in public alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the main reason for the depression and suicide; women who were once educators or doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated as sub-human in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their tradition or 'culture', but is alien to them, and it is extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule. Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women in a Muslim country. If we can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of the world can certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed against women by the Taliban. STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves support and action by the United Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be tolerated. Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere and it is UNACCEPTABLE for women in 1999 to be treated as sub-human and so much as property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a freedom, whether one lives in Afghanistan or elsewhere. 1) Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France 2) Laurence COMPARAT, Grenoble,France 3) Philippe MOTTE, Grenoble, France 4) Jok FERRAND, Mont St Martin, France 5) Emmanuelle PIGNOL, St Martin d'Heres, FRANCE 6) Marie GAUTHIER, Grenoble, FRANCE 7) Laurent VESCALO, Grenoble,FRANCE 8) Mathieu MOY, St Egreve, FRANCE 9) Bernard BLANCHET, Mont St Martin, FRANCE 10) Tassadite FAVRIE, Grenoble, FRANCE 11) Loic GODARD, St Ismier, FRANCE 12) Benedicte PASCAL, Grenoble, FRANCE 13) Khedaidja BENATIA, Grenoble, FRANCE 14) Marie-Therese LLORET, Grenoble,FRANCE 15) Benoit THEAU, Poitiers, FRANCE 16) Bruno CONSTANTIN, Poitiers,
[CTRL] Is WWIII Imminent?
-Caveat Lector- This article appeared in the August 20, 1999 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. Is World War III coming? by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. issued the following statement on Aug. 11. Among those who are paying attention to reality, one of the two big questions of the day is, "Is Nuclear World War III Now Inevitable?" My answer is, that I believe it is not inevitable; but, the danger is serious enough that serious people will ask themselves that question. The drive toward a nuclear world war comes from the British monarchy, as the policies of the current Prime Minister and 1931 Ramsay MacDonald look-alike Tony Blair typify this impulse. However, although the British monarchy is by far the world's dominant financial power, and also the world's presently leading political power, the thrust for war depends upon that monarchy's ability to push the world's leading military power, the U.S.A., into adopting London's current geopolitical adventurism. It is from this standpoint, that we must understand the significance of madman Zbigniew Brzezinski's current policies, which are more or less identical to those of Brzezinski crony and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For maniacs such as Blair, Brzezinski, and Albright, the orchestration of the recent war against Yugoslavia was only the prelude to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, in Transcaucasia and Central Asia more widely. Blair, Brzezinski, Albright et al., are depending upon their belief that this drive toward a nuclear confrontation with Russia is a strategic bluff, to which they are confident that Russia will back down. London's attempt to orchestrate a nuclear attack on India, by London-controlled assets in the Pakistan military, is part of the same post-Balkan-War thrust. There, in brief, lies the risk of an actual nuclear World War III. What these nuclear maniacs, such as Blair, Brzezinski, and Albright, assume, is that Russia could not win such a war. They have asked themselves the wrong question. Perhaps Russia has no hope of winning such a war; but, perhaps the U.S.A. has no hope of winning it, either. Even if the U.S.A. might appear to secure a victory in such a showdown, just as the famous King Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in one battle, perhaps the U.S.A. would not long outlive the end of such a military confrontation. Go back to 1905, where we may find a comparable case. Recall the discussions between the two cousins, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Czar Nicholas of Russia, discussing the need to spoil their uncle's, King Edward VII's, clear intent to push them into war against one another. When the two cousins failed to prevent the British from manipulating them into war against one another, the result was that both lost the war, and the Czar lost more than that. The British monarchy's use of its assets in Turkey, to orchestrate a post-Balkans spread of warfare throughout Transcaucasia, and into Central Asia beyond that, has already erupted into open warfare in the north Caucusus, and threatens to pull fools in NATO into military deployments against Russia, in both Transcaucasia and in Central Asia. This would constitute a threat to the very continued existence of a Russia which is still a thermonuclear power. Russia's warfare capability would then go on alert status. When one presents a chosen adversary with an absolutely hopeless situation, that adversary may find itself impelled to strike back in absolute desperation. As every qualified military professional since Machiavelli knows, what NATO is implicitly threatening to do, creates precisely the kind of military situation, in which the unthinkable may become the inevitable. When the fires of hatred are stoked to the highest possible degree in the passions of the intended military victim, all ordinary strategic and diplomatic calculations, especially the calculations of madly desperate fools such as Blair, Brzezinski, and Albright, are no longer controlling. There lies the short-term risk of an actual, early outbreak of nuclear war-fighting. Now, look at another crucial element of the same strategic equation: the current world economic situation. It is an open, repeatedly verified fact, that, since 1989, the U.S.A. and NATO as a whole, have lost the ability to conduct regular warfare. The chief reason is economic. As in "Desert Storm," and as is shown in the resumed war on Iraq, and the recent war against Yugoslavia, NATO is not capable of fighting war to win with military force on the ground. The very adoption of the lunacy of "Air-Land Battle 2000" by the U.S.A. attests less to what the U.S. military forces can do, than what they have lost the capability of doing. In the war against Yugoslavia, NATO did not fight war; indeed, both NATO and the President of the U.S.A. insisted, that this was a punishment expedition, not an actual war. What NATO's bombing attacks did, was to destroy the economy of
[CTRL] Fw: AANEWS for Thursday, October 14, 1999
-Caveat Lector- from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for October 14, 1999 A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S #653 ~~~ 10/14/99 http://www.atheists.org ftp.atheists.org/pub/atheists/ http://www.americanatheist.org --- A Service of AMERICAN ATHEISTS "Leading The Way For Atheist Civil Rights And The Separation Of State and Church" --- In This Issue... * Appeal likely in baseball discrimination case * Dumb and dumber; churches defeat Alabama lottery * Kansas evolution debate; groups carry out "scientific blockade" * Resources * About this list... APPEAL LIKELY IN SILVERMAN CASE AFTER JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF CHURCH PROMOTION NIGHT Attorneys for Carl Silverman say they will appeal their case despite an administrative court ruling that found the Hagerstown Suns baseball team did not discriminate by holding a "church bulletin night" promotion. In a decision made public this past Tuesday, Administrative Law Judge Georgia Brady opined: "I conclude that Maryland's public accommodation law, unlike that of many other jurisdictions, prohibits only the discriminatory application of a promotion. In the absence of a discriminatory effect, the promotion is not per se illegal." In April, 1998 Silverman took his family to see a game featuring the Hagerstown (Maryland) Suns team, a Class A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. The team was sponsoring a special discount for anyone carrying a church newsletter or bulletin. Silverman, a self-proclaimed agnostic, informed the ticket clerk that he was "not religious," and was told that without a church newsletter, he would have to pay the full price of admission. Silverman filed a complaint with the Maryland Commission on Human Relations arguing that the Hagerstown Suns were a "public accommodation," and had discriminated on the basis of religious belief. After conducting an investigation, the Com' management refused to settle the case out of court for a token fine and end to the church bulletin promotion, and the Commission then issued a Statement of Charges on March 3, 1999. The case was argued in June and July of this year before Judge Brady. The complaint quickly became another skirmish in the volatile culture war over the display and role of faith in the public square. Religious groups including the Rutherford Institute and Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice lined up to support the Hagerstown Suns. "Faith-based" discount programs were expanded, and a portion of gate receipts were used for the team's legal defense. Decision Raises Questions, Ducks Issue The 35-page finding of the Administrative Court obtained by AANEWS, though, suggests that while both sides agreed on many of the facts of the case, there are significant differences in the accounts of what happened when Silverman and his family ventured to the Suns' game and approached the ticket booth on April 12, 1998 -- coincidentally, the Christian religious holiday known as Easter Sunday. * The judge wrote that she agreed "that the facile terms of the promotion call for an individual to present a bulletin obtained from a Christian house of worship," and that "obtaining or producing a church bulletin is an act which makes a statement about an individual's religious believes. Accordingly, the promotion, which requires production of a religious-oriented documented, distinguishes on its face between persons because of their creed." Even so, Brady noted that this "does not make the promotion illegal under Maryland's public accommodation law, in the absence of evidence that it has been applied 'to deny, refuse, or withhold from' that person any advantage or privilege of the public accommodation...'" * Mr. Silverman was aware of the church bulletin promotion, and had intended to test the issue. Silverman complained that when the ticket seller for the Suns informed him that he needed a church bulletin to qualify for the admission discount, he (Silverman) said that not being a religious person, he could not produce said bulletin. Silverman then said that the ticket seller contacted the team manager, David Blenckstone, who informed Carl that "there would be no discount without the bulletin." An individual identified as "Rico," however, said that he was the ticket seller in question; he claimed that when confronted by Silverman, he "followed his routine of simply pulling out an extra (church) bulletin and telling the Complainant that he would give him the discount anyway." Rebutting the testimony of "Rico," Silverman identified two ticket sellers, Kim and Sarah, to whom he had paid his full price admission. Judge Brady suggested: "I assume that the intent of this line of testimony was to convince me that the Complainant had never dealt with any
[CTRL] Fw: AANEWS for Tuesday, October 12, 1999
-Caveat Lector- from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for October 12, 1999 A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S #652 ~~~ 10/12/99 http://www.atheists.org ftp.atheists.org/pub/atheists/ http://www.americanatheist.org --- A Service of AMERICAN ATHEISTS "Leading The Way For Atheist Civil Rights And The Separation Of State and Church" --- In This Issue... * Silverman loses: ball team discrimination to continue? * Court refuses state-church separation cases * Bible Week practice upheld * Union County Atheists meeting * Israel deports more Christian cultists * Resources * About this list... SILVERMAN LOSES DISCRIMINATION CASE A Pennsylvania freethinker who complained that he was a victim of discrimination when he tried to attend a minor league baseball game during a "church bulletin" promotion night has reportedly lost his case. Carl Silverman took his family to a Hagerstown (Maryland) Suns game in April, 1998. That evening, the club was sponsoring a special discount rate for those carrying a church bulletin. Silverman informed the ticket clerk that he was not religious and did not have a bulletin. He was told that he would then have to pay the full price of admission. Silverman filed a "Charge of Discrimination" complaint with the Maryland Commission on Human Relations. The Commission attempted to settle the dispute out of court, but team management remained firm and even continued the practice. In addition, the Suns soon began sporting a "halo" insignia on their uniforms. On June 12, 1998, the Commission issued a "Cease and Desist" order and in late July ruled that there existed "probable cause" for a charge of discrimination. The Suns responded by launching a "Faith Community Night," and announced that a portion of receipts would be used for legal defense of its case. A hearing was held in July, 1999 before Administrative Law Judge Georgia Brady. Silverman asked that the six-year old promotion cease, and argued that the team is a "public accommodation" and thus subject to state and federal anti-discrimination statutes. Mr. Silverman had few details about the ruling, and said only that his lawyers had been informed today of the Administrative Court's decision. For more information: http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/bball6.htm ** HIGH COURT REFUSES FIRST AMENDMENT CASES The U.S. Supreme Court today let stand lower court decisions, and refused to hear several important First Amendment cases including a dispute involving Maine's voucher system. As a result, there is little clarification regarding the separation of church and state over the question of public aid to religious schools, and no new legal precedent was set. Justices refused to hear an appeal in a case barring the state of Pennsylvania from exempting religious publications from sales tax. That let stand a decision in the case of Pittsburgh publisher Felice Newman and Steven Zupcic. In 1993, Zupcic purchased several books at a local store and noticed that the Muslim Koran and the Jewish Haggadah were taxed, but the Bible was not. Four years later, a Commonwealth Court ruled that the state acted improperly in making some religious publications tax-exempt while placing a levy other writings. Justice Sandra Newman wrote that the practice displayed "a preference for communication of religious messages." Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge decided to launch an appeal. The high court also rejected an appeal in a case involving a voucher program in Maine that provides funds for parents wishing to send their children to attend private schools, but would not cover tuition expenses for private religious institutions. Parents of religious-school students said that the practice violated their rights by refusing them equal financial help given to those parents whose children attend private, nonsectarian schools. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals both upheld the state policy, and those decisions stay intact as a result of today's move. Another case turned down by the Supreme Court involved a special Jewish public school district set up by the state of New York to serve disabled children. Justices split 6-3 in rejected the case, with Justices O'Connor, Scalia and Thomas in favor of hearing arguments. In 1989, the New York legislature created the Kiryas Joel school district after local residents withdrew their disabled youngsters from the public school system. In 1994, the high court ruled that the state had illegally given special treatment to a particular religious sect. Two more efforts by the legislator to create the special religious district were also struck down. In
[CTRL] [Fwd: Ritual Killing of the Divine King - Part I]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Ritual Killing of the Divine King - Part I Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:58:56 -0400 From: "Timothy Aho" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Watch Unto Prayer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Watchmen From: Watch Unto Prayer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://watch.pair.com/pray.html Date: October 14, 1999 RITUAL KILLING OF THE DIVINE KING - PART I The latest clue in the assassination mystery unraveled by Barry Chamish's online book, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, links it to the modern Knights Templars. This is no surprise to those who are aware of the designs which the modern Freemasons have on the Holy Land, i.e., to seize the Temple Mount and remake Jerusalem a Masonic city from which they intend to rule the world. To appreciate the enormity of the dominionist ambition and influence of modern Freemasonry, you will want to read Barry's update on the Rabin assassination. It seems that the coroner who presided over Yitzhak Rabin's autopsy also conducted another autopsy on one Alisdair Rosslyn Sinclair -- a blue blood Knight Templar who would have been a front runner in the Merovingian campaign for election as the King of Jerusalem. YITZHAK RABIN A.RABIN'S LAST DOCTOR by Barry Chamish We now enter the realm of the truly bizarre as we look at the doctor who last examined Yitzhak Rabin, the State Pathologist, Dr. Yehuda Hiss. Israelis know too well that their government's coroner is corrupt. In September 1999, Judge Ruth Orr overturned a conviction against a Jewish resident of Judea and Samaria for the shooting murder of an Arab boy because she accused Dr. Hiss of forging the forensic evidence against him. It was the second time in a year that a murder conviction was overturned because Hiss had falsified an autopsy for political purposes. He had earlier been caught doctoring the facts to secure a wrongful rap against the parents of a murdered child. His biggest fabrication of all occurred after the country's most ghastly scandal was proven. In the first decade of Israel's existence, the Labor government kidnapped over 4500 babies, mostly of new Yemenite immigrant parents, and sold them off for adoption and medical experiments, mostly abroad. Through the efforts of Yemenite groups fighting to expose this crime, three years ago one mother, Margalit Omeisse was reunited with her daughter Celia Levine, given up for adoption to a California couple almost half a century before. Besides looking like twins, the Hebrew University genetics laboratory proved they were mother and daughter by DNA testing. Dr. Hiss retested the two for the government and lo and behold, found that Hebrew University was wrong. And that's why his nickname in certain circles is Dr. Coverup. People started calling him that about a year after the Rabin assassination. He conducted a partial autopsy of Rabin and concluded he was shot twice in the back from medium range. In 1996, Rabin's hospital records were uncovered and over ten doctors and nurses signed very different accounts of Rabin's demise. He was actually shot three times, twice from point blank range and once frontally in the upper chest. On top of that, Rabin's spine was shattered and Hiss categorically reported that it wasn't. Because the patsy Yigal Amir never shot from point blank range or from the front, and because the assassination film proved Rabin's spine could not have been broken since he kept right on walking after the shot to his back, somebody must have asked Hiss to alter the medical facts. So he did and then the government's commission of inquiry into the murder adopted Hiss's lies as the official version of Rabin's death. So we knew that Hiss was corrupt and that he molded his reports to fit government orders. What we didn't know was that he is also genuinely ghoulish. Avi and Nitzana (Darshan) Leitner are Yigal Amir's attorneys. They also represent another victim of Dr. Hiss, the family of Alisdair Sinclair. On April 14, 1998, 47 year old Alisdair Sinclair, was stopped by customs officials at Ben Gurion Airport on his way out of the country after a six day stay. They found 9000 Deutsche marks in a false bottom of his handbag and he was arrested without charge. The police thought the false bottom suggested something illegal though hiding a large amount of money is a legitimate means of thwarting theft. At the airport police station, Sinclair was found strangling on his shoelaces. He was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead. From there his body was transferred to the Abu Kabir Institute For Forensic Medicine and straight into the paws of Dr. Yehuda Hiss, who conducted an autopsy which concluded that Sinclair had killed himself. After that, there was a problem with the body. Sinclair was unmarried, his parents weren't alive and he had been living a rather rootless life in Amsterdam dealing in vintage guitars and strumming them at local
Re: [CTRL] GOP News Views - October 14, 1999
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/14/1999 7:35:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bernie Lewinsky is mad. Seems Bernie was watching TV the other night when a character in the show Law Order: Special Victims Unit referred to one person doing a Lewinsky on another - which was TV's clever way of saying one person was performing oral sex on another. Bernie wants an apology from NBC and from Dick Wolf, producer of the series. He says the comment held his daughter up to ridicule and defiled his family name. Sorry, Bernie. Your daughter held herself up to ridicule the first time she dropped to her knees and did a Lewinsky on the President of the United States. And you defiled your family name when, instead of acting like a father and demanding Bill Clinton's gonads on a platter, you gave TV interviews and talked about how much you respected the President and thought he was doing a good job for the country. - Doug Thompson, Capitol Hill Blue, 10/13/99 Yes, and Mr. Lewinsky should take a course in parenting somewhere. Raising a daughter with the strange behavior exhibited by Monica indicates that indeed an apology is indicated, but it should come from Mr. Lewinsky who apparently never noticed his child's strange behavior (which started long before she got to the White House). Even if he just apologizes to Monica for his obvious neglect, it should be a help. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Tatman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Now, at the time I discovered Irish coffee, I was still, alas, a registered Republican. Shortly thereafter I looked at my voter registration card, gagged, and promptly re-registered as a Democrat. After looking at the current crop of candidates from all parties, both major and minor, I am about to abandon the political spectrum and re-register as a Non-Euclidean. A wise move. I was once a registered Platypus. Our candidate for mayor of San Francisco, Tony Serra [the 'dope' lawyer portrayed by James Woods in some late '80s film] proposed financing The City by legalizing drugs and holding continuous rock concerts on Alcatraz. Alas, he was beaten by Geo. Moscone IIRC who was later assassinated [along with Sup. Harvey Milk] by Dan "Twinkie Defence" White, giving the world Lady DiFi [Sen. Diane Feinstein]. But I digress.. As the doctor told me when I asked him if I was crazy, "One of us is, my boy, one of us is..." Any consensus? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Lorem Ipsum Dolor.
-Caveat Lector- Lorem Ipsum Dolor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum Et harumd und lookum like Greek to me, dereud facilis est er expedit distinct. Nam liber te conscient to factor tum poen legum odioque civiuda. Et tam neque pecun modut est neque nonor et imper ned libidig met, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed ut labore et dolore magna aliquam makes one wonder who would ever read this stuff? Bis nostrud exercitation ullam mmodo consequet. Duis aute in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. At vver eos et accusam dignissum qui blandit est praesent luptatum delenit aigue excepteur sint occae. Et harumd dereud facilis est er expedit distinct. Nam libe soluta nobis eligent optio est congue nihil impedit doming id Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, set eiusmod tempor incidunt et labore et dolore magna aliquam. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerc. Irure dolor in reprehend incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse molestaie cillum. Tia non ob ea soluad incommod quae egen ium improb fugiend. Officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum Et harumd dereud facilis est er expedit distinct. Nam liber te conscient to factor tum poen legum odioque civiuda et tam. Neque pecun modut est neque nonor et imper ned libidig met, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed ut labore et dolore magna aliquam is nostrud exercitation ullam mmodo consequet. Duis aute in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. At vver eos et accusam dignissum qui blandit est praesent. Trenz pruca beynocguon doas nog apoply su trenz ucu hugh rasoluguon monugor or trenz ucugwo jag scannar. Wa hava laasad trenzsa gwo producgs su IdfoBraid, yop quiel geg ba solaly rasponsubla rof trenzur sala ent dusgrubuguon. Offoctivo immoriatoly, hawrgasi pwicos asi sirucor.Thas sirutciun applios tyu thuso itoms ghuso pwicos gosi sirucor in mixent gosi sirucor ic mixent ples cak ontisi sowios uf Zerm hawr rwivos. Unte af phen neige pheings atoot Prexs eis phat eit sakem eit vory gast te Plok peish ba useing phen roxas. Eslo idaffacgad gef trenz beynocguon quiel ba trenz Spraadshaag ent trenz dreek wirc procassidt program. Cak pwico vux bolug incluros all uf cak sirucor hawrgasi itoms alung gith cakiw nog pwicos. Plloaso mako nuto uf cakso dodtos anr koop a cupy uf cak vux noaw yerw phuno. Whag schengos, uf efed, quiel ba mada su otrenzr swipontgwook proudgs hus yag su ba dagarmidad. Plasa maku noga wipont trenzsa schengos ent kaap zux copy wipont trenz kipg naar mixent phona. Cak pwico siructiun ruos nust apoply tyu cak UCU sisulutiun munityuw uw cak UCU-TGU jot scannow. Trens roxas eis ti Plokeing quert loppe eis yop prexs. Piy opher hawers, eit yaggles orn ti sumbloat alohe plok. Su havo loasor cakso tgu pwuructs tyu InfuBwain, ghu gill nug bo suloly sispunsiblo fuw cakiw salo anr ristwibutiun. Hei muk neme eis loppe. Treas em wankeing ont sime ploked peish rof phen sumbloat syug si phat phey gavet peish ta paat ein pheeir sumbloats. Aslu unaffoctor gef cak siructiun gill bo cak spiarshoot anet cak GurGanglo gur pwucossing pwutwam. Ghat dodtos, ig pany, gill bo maro tyu ucakw suftgasi pwuructs hod yot tyubo rotowminor. Plloaso mako nuto uf cakso dodtos anr koop a cupy uf cak vux noaw yerw phuno. Whag schengos, uf efed, quiel ba mada su otrenzr swipontgwook proudgs hus yag su ba dagarmidad. Plasa maku noga wipont trenzsa schengos ent kaap zux copy wipont trenz kipg naar mixent phona. Cak pwico siructiun ruos nust apoply tyu cak UCU sisulutiun munityuw uw cak UCU-TGU jot scannow. Trens roxas eis ti Plokeing quert loppe eis yop prexs. Piy opher hawers, eit yaggles orn ti sumbloat alohe plok. Su havo loasor cakso tgu pwuructs tyu. http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_36.htm#SEC145 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
Re: [CTRL] [prj] HOW TO DEFEAT STATISM
-Caveat Lector- Joe Feck wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/14/99 5:01:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Statism is the doctrine that maintains that your life, money and property are not yours. It is the idea that you may only take those actions permitted by the state, that you may be forced to surrender your money to the state or forbidden to spend it as you please, that you may not use and dispose of your property as you see fit. everything previously prohibited is now mandatory! Zero Population*- Safe kids (cloned) *- Safe Parents (crèche) *- Safe Education (virtual reality) *- Safe Sex (virtual reality) - Look Ma no hand or SD's - They have finally found a way to tax sex! - Why* ** Do ** *** I *** ** Not ** * Feel * SAFE ??? = Take out the Hapsburgs for control then when space was found / understood They want all travelers to be female for control through reproduction. bacteria will not allow it. http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/major.htm absolute control corrupts absolutely -- Any person can stand adversity, The true test is to give a person power. If you treat a relationship as if you are the only one in it, eventually you will be. Atrocities happen when the people about you - start considering you surplus. "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion" Thomas Jefferson My Grandfather told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group - there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~index.htm ICQ 14484977 NEW http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/site_map.htm DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NASA FILM SHOWS UFOs
-Caveat Lector- October 14, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (609) 654-0020 Visit our Web Site at www.filersfiles.com. NASA FILM SHOWS UFOs CAPE KENNEDY - A recent visitor to the Space Center attended the IMAX theater movie being shown to the public. One scene shows the US Space Shuttle near the Russian MIR space station. The NASA footage shows three disc shaped UFOs approaching MIR. Two UFOs fly slowly past and the third UFO stops and appears to observe the space station. The UFOs do not appear to be ice crystals. They appear to be space ships that either belong to a nation of this Earth or from some where else in the universe. Editors Note: Can anyone else confirm seeing UFOs in this film? NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin may be trying to let the public know there is something else out there so the public will help prevent Congress from cutting NASA's budget again. Astronaut Eugene Cernan was commander of Apollo 17. In a Los Angeles Times article in 1973, he stated, "I've been asked (about UFOs) and I've said publicly I thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization." WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- See URL below for images and drawings used to support the "Underground Vault" theory at Wright-Patterson AFB:. This web site has interesting engineering plans of the various buildings on base. These images and drawings are supportive data and there are no explicative texts http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/wrightpatterson/ U.S. GOVERNMENT UFO PROOF RELEASED: Audio tapes of a genuine UFO Alert at Edwards Air Force base and studied by the Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, are now available for distribution to the public. Lunar Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell was at Edwards the night the UFO chase occurred. The 6th person to walk on the moon said, "The night it happened I investigated it myself and this was a real event." Sam Sherman's audio documentary tape called THE EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE ENCOUNTER on the night of October 7, 1965, uses the actual voice recordings provided by the Air Force. During this event 12 high tech luminous UFOs invade secure air space and came down low over the runways at Edwards AFB. Tower operator Sgt. Chuck Sorrels spotted them and notified the Air Defense Command. Sgt. Sorrels is heard on the original tapes and in a new segment where he verifies the event as it is heard on the archival recordings. The UFOs are described and a decision is made to launch F-106 fighter interceptors. You are there for an important part of UFO history. Hear it for yourself, it's the best UFO tape ever made. Tape cost is $14.95 each plus $2.00 for shipping -- total $16.95 --(for overseas orders- out of US - add $6.00 shipping cost - total - $20.95) you can send either a personal check or money order to: Independent International Pictures Corp, Box 565, Dept. GF, Old Bridge, New Jersey 08857. We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage Bargain Books http://bn.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1349732?siteid=10734186bfpage=b DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ralph Nader Public Citizen: WTO is weakening health laws
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart Wednesday, October 13, 1999 By MICHAEL PAULSON Mail Author SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON -- Detailing criticisms likely to form the basis for much of the protest in Seattle next month, Ralph Nader today is releasing a study of the World Trade Organization alleging that the WTO is undermining environmental and public health laws around the world. But the critique is being disputed by the Clinton administration and business officials, who say Nader is misportraying a variety of actions taken by the WTO. The book-length report, published by a consumer group Nader founded called Public Citizen, claims that, since its founding five years ago, the WTO has decided against every public health, safety and environmental regulation it has considered. The book claims that the WTO has usurped the right of nations to determine their own environmental, health and labor laws, and calls the WTO "a slow-motion coup d'etat over democratic governance worldwide." "In approving the far-reaching, powerful World Trade Organization and other international trade agreements . . . the U.S. Congress, like those of other nations, has ceded much of its capacity to independently advance health and safety standards that protect citizens . . .," Nader wrote in a preface to the book. "Under this new system, many decisions affecting people's daily lives are being shifted away from our local and national governments and instead are being made by a group of unelected trade bureaucrats sitting behind closed doors in Geneva, Switzerland." The criticism was immediately rejected by the Clinton administration and business groups that have argued that the U.S. economy and work force have benefited from the nation's membership in the WTO, and that the rules-based trading that the WTO represents opens new markets for U.S. exports. President Clinton plans to make a speech tonight outlining his objectives for the WTO meeting. "Nothing has been ceded," said Dianne Sullivan, director of trade policy for the National Association of Manufacturers and a key adviser to a pro-WTO business coalition, U.S. Alliance for Trade Expansion. "There isn't any WTO case that has said anything to the contrary. It's just that we have to apply all laws equally to domestic companies and foreign companies." A senior U.S. trade official, who asked not to be identified, said that the United States has not compromised any of its environmental or other values even when it has had to change regulations to comply with WTO rulings. "The (WTO) appellate body has gone out of its way to recognize and acknowledge the legitimacy of environmental objectives," the official said. "We can disagree with the appellate body on whether our measures were being implemented in a discriminatory way, but we're quite able to comply and correct perceived discrimination in a way that meets our environmental objectives." Nader brings to the WTO debate some credibility, as well as controversy, as the country's best-known consumer advocate. Nader became famous for challenging automobile industry safety practices in the mid-1960s. When he criticized Microsoft's practices in 1997, the company went out of its way to praise him even as it disagreed with his complaints. Nader argues that the WTO, because of its emphasis on fostering barrier-free trade, inevitably views national labor, environmental and public health laws as trade barriers. And he argues that the organization is unusually secretive. His complaints are not new, but the Public Citizen book represents the most comprehensive effort to date by WTO critics to spell out the reasons for their concerns. Critics have been promising widespread protest in Seattle when the world's trade ministers gather for a WTO meeting starting Nov. 30. The book argues that the United States already has weakened laws protecting endangered sea turtles and dolphins and has weakened domestic clean air regulations to comply with edicts of the WTO. The U.S. trade official said those cases are being misconstrued by the WTO critics. Specifically, Citizen Action claims that, "the U.S. relaxed standards designed to limit gasoline contaminants after Venezuela won a WTO challenge." According to the trade official, the United States did have to revise regulations that were being applied differently to foreign oil companies than to domestic companies, but clean air standards were not relaxed. For more information: Public Citizen: www.citizen.org U.S. Trade Representative: www.ustr.gov U.S. Alliance for Trade Expansion: www.us-trade.org _ P-I reporter Michael Paulson can be reached at 202-943-9229 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] = *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
Re: [CTRL] NASA FILM SHOWS UFOs
-Caveat Lector- We went over the tape repeatedly because we owe it to our subscribers to present the most accurate truthful information available The tape raises a hundred questions. I would call it genuine.. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Illuminati Millennium Rituals
-Caveat Lector- THE ILLUMINATI RITUALS ON THE FALSE MILLENNIUM AND COMING AGE OF LIGHT by David Icke October 11, 1999 There are many things to know about the Millennium to understand what is really going on. Firstly it is only happening at this point because of the Gregorian calendar - introduced by the Illuminati via the Vatican in October, 1582. It is a ridiculous measurement of what we call "time" with it's 31 day months, 30 day months, and 28 days..29 every four years. It is like throwing all of your clothes in a wardrobe and pressing your bum against the door to bang it shut. Everything is in there, but it's a bloody mess. So it is with the Gregorian calendar. But, then, it is not there to efficiently measure "time", it was created to hit key solar cycles and astrological sequences which the Illuminati-reptilians planned to use to advance their agenda. The Millennium is a classic example of this. The Illuminati have always focused on the power of the Sun. After all the Sun is 99% of the mass of the solar system - it IS the solar system. When it changes, we change. They know the effect on human thought and emotions when, for instance, the Sun cycles reach their peak and massively powerful solar energy is projected at the Earth. At it's most powerful it has taken out computer and power systems. SO: What a coincidence that the Illuminati-created Gregorian calendar should be orchestrated to hit the peak of a massive Sun cycle PRECISELY at the point of the false millennium - January 2000. This has been done for a specific reason - more than one - and that includes the way this powerful solar energy will prime human consciousness to be more likely to react to events in the desired fashion. In January 1997 there were 19 significant emissions of energy; Sun spot activity; which affected the Earth field. This cycle has been climbing ever since and will hit it's peak at the Millennium and the immediate months afterwards with 160 solar "strikes" on the Earth. I have been talking about this for more than a year and included this information in The Biggest Secret where you will find the relevant solar chart. Only a few months ago the American Astronomical Association issued a press release at its Chicago conference warning that the world was threatened with technological disruption at the Millennium because of this cycle. Y2K is not the only source of malfunction, they said. The fantastic energy bombardment from the Sun at that time, they warned, could mislead satellites into believing they were being given instructions that were not, in fact, being given.. The whole scenario was planned centuries ago because the reptilians, operating from the lower fourth dimension, and indeed whatever force controls them, have a very different version of "time" than we have, hence they can see and plan down the three-dimensional "time"-line in a way that those in three-dimensional form cannot. You not be surprised to learn, therefore, that an enormous network of Illuminati rituals are planned all over the world at the turn of the Millennium, especially at the Giza pyramids in Egypt where a stream of Illuminati names will attend, including George Bush. The musician, Jean-Michel Jarre, has been paid a fortune to create a musical and lights extravaganza at Giza called, wait for it; the Twelve Dreams of the Sun. Jarre told a news conference that his special effects will give the illusion that the pyramids are doors through which the Sun passes. "The Sun, symbol of Egypt and time, seemed to me to be the best analogy to celebrate the new millennium" he said. Yes, it all came from your own creative mind, Jean-Michel, me old darling, I'll believe you. The fact that the millennium is the peak of a Sun cycle; the Illuminati created this false millennium with the Gregorian calender; and they follow the Sun cycles to the finest detail, is purely coincidental. Sure it is.. The Giza ritual, which will cost some $9.5 million, will attract 50,000 people, it is estimated, and will be broadcast to 60 countries.The centre of the ritual will be a golden capstone placed on top of the Great Pyramid which will emit golden light. They are not putting this in our face are they? This, of course, relates to the Illuminati symbolism which spans the ages of the pyramid with the capstone missing; the very symbol you find on the dollar bill. The pyramid and all seeing eye - the shining capstone and eye which represents the force which controls the world.
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] A Mission for the List
OK List - Here's a Chance to stop debating the past for bit and to actually change the future. Anybody interested? Dan Hopsicker and I are working on a very big story which will print in the next issue of From The Wilderness. It is a major evolutionary step from where we started on the alleged George W drug sting three months ago. The story is about what I will call The Smoking Airplane and why an airplane once owned by Barry Seal is now owned by the State of Texas. The full story will run in the october issue of from The Wilderness which will mail on October 28. I can't tell you the whole thing because it isn't written yet. And it is big. Completion of one particluar mission might take W out of the race - if it's true. We need your help. Here are the known items: 1. Gantt Aviation of Georgetown, Texas - outside of Dallas which sold the plane in question to the State in 1990. 2. Florence Gantt - Secretary to Admiral John Poindetxer in 1985-6-7. Question 1: Where is Florence Gantt now? Question 2: Is she in any way shape or form related to the Gantt's (Jay and Johnny) of Gantt aviation in Austin? Question 3: What is there about either Gantt that we don't know. You can eliminate the product of standard web searches such as the following: 1. E.F. Gantt on I Street, NE in Wash. D.C. - not her 2. Florence Gantt, Las vegas NV. - disconnected moved, no listing. 3. Flornce Gantt on NW 15th Court in Miami is a possibility but the new number has been pending a new number hook up for five days. 4. There's an EF Gantt in Ft. Worth who has not returned a call. Use caution and judgement so that we don't ind up having a hundred people call the same person. If you find anything you can either e-mail it to me or to Daniel. Or you can post it to the list. The journalistic rule here that if you find Florence Gantt and you get her to admit that she is related to Gantt Aviation (or emphatically deny it), you must be willing to go on the record and have your name used in the story. If not then find her and let me or Dan get the quote. Either way works. I'll give you a hint that records have been disappearing just about as fast as Dan and I can get to them and ask for them. We can't pay you but since the country's sinking and you'll be helping to set it right, maybe that'll be pay enough. It will certainly prove that there are people who still know how to work together. Anybody who comes up with anything significant gets a free subscription to From The Wilderness or, if you're already on board, a one year extension to your current one. I am leaving town for speaking engagements until late Sunday night. I will be back on line Monday morning. Kick butt guys! Let's show the bad guys what the Net was made for! Mike Ruppert www.copvcia.com
[CTRL] Flynt 'Dirt on W' Scoop Old News (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I guess MSNBC hasn't been paying attention. Flynt blabbed about this on LA radio months ago -- and NewsMax reported it: Inside Cover Thursday July 29, 8:22 PM Larry Flynt: I've got Dirt on 'W' Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt is at it again. Not content with toppling GOP House Speaker-in-waiting Robert Livingston over a personal indiscretion on the very day of last year's House impeachment vote, Flynt now has George W. Bush in his crosshairs. Appearing Wednesday on Stephanie Miller's KABC radio show in Los Angeles, the owner of the White House's favorite "news magazine"(as Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart once referred to Hustler) said he has something on Bush -- but refused to elaborate. A transcript was unavailable, but one source who heard Miller's Flynt interview reports that the investigative pornographer says he's on the George W. cocaine trail. Speculation has been rampant since Bush has made it clear that he won't discuss the particulars of his past. In an interview with the presidential candidate that appeared last Sunday, the Washington Post broached the subject. "We need to ask the cocaine questionwhy won't you just deny that you've used cocaine?" Bush stuck to his guns, insisting that he wasn't going to play "this game, where they float rumors, force a person to fight off a rumor, then they'll float another rumor." A spokeswoman with Miller's show suggested that Flynt's dirt on Bush may not be about drugs. "He said he's already unearthed something but he didn't say what it was and he didn't say what it was aboutHe was very tight-lipped about it. He was saying that when he made the million dollar offer last year (for dirt on Republicans) the Bush information came in then." Calls to Hustler's Los Angeles headquarters Thursday afternoon went unreturned. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
